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Potemkin Villager · Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1036 Location: Narnia

I think they had to curtail about 500MW of wind about 2200 last night as the penetration was heading into the, shall we say, interesting region of 100%. If one of the inter-connectors had gone down again they would have had to diss another 500 MW of wind.

There is a question as to if there is already too much wind on the system whilst there is huge pressure to build a whole load more. This is all uncharted territory and load management is still scarcely being mentioned.
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Potemkin Villager · Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1036 Location: Narnia

Things a bit different now with 4.6 GW demand and only 521 MW wind and importing 362 MW from the UK - phew good job we didn't close down any of those gas fueled power stations!
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RenewableCandy · Joined: 12 Sep 2007 Posts: 12605 Location: York

You're gonna need a bigger interconnector Very Happy

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BritDownUnder · Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2018 3:49 am Post subject:

adam2 · Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 10:02 am Post subject:

Today, June 14 at about 10-00, wind power is the largest single contributor to the UK grid.
This has been achieved before, but is most unusual at this time of year.
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kenneal - lagger · Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 1:57 pm Post subject:

emordnilap · Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2018 11:07 am Post subject:

The (past, present and most importantly the future) disadvantages of nuclear drastically outweigh the mere current advantages. We vote to be hidebound by short-term, selfish interests.

And the humungous amount of wasted cash, most of which which ultimately is forked out by those least able to afford it, has and always will be a crime.
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RenewableCandy · Joined: 12 Sep 2007 Posts: 12605 Location: York

It boggles my (pedantic) mind that people quote Carbon figures on nuclear power when no-one's yet agreed how we're going to handle the waste.
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emordnilap · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2018 3:14 pm Post subject:

PS_RalphW · Joined: 24 Nov 2005 Posts: 5388 Location: Cambridge

For the last 48 hours wind has been the single biggest source of electricity in the UK. On site is currently quoting 14GW production

http://clivebest.com/rgraph/Wind.html

BritDownUnder · Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2018 12:30 am Post subject:

kenneal - lagger · Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2018 9:54 am Post subject:

That is good considering the strength of the winds we have seen over the last 48 hours. I would have expected a lot of wind capacity to have been shut down for safety reasons.
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adam2 · Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2018 2:26 pm Post subject:

adam2 · Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2018 3:18 pm Post subject:

Earlier today indicated wind power reached almost 11Gw and it is still over 10.9Gw, A new record I believe.

Wind is also the single largest contributor to the UK grid, a position regularly achieved overnight but still uncommon during the day.

Figures from Gridwatch, the actual production is probably a little higher than the reported figure.
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adam2 · Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2018 6:40 pm Post subject:

Another new record set, at about 09-30 Wednesday.
11.05 Gw from wind, a few days ago, only a slight advance on the previous record of 10.98Gw set a few day previously.

Also of note was that wind power was the single largest source of electricity into the grid at the time.

This is regularly achieved overnight, and has happened during the day at weekends.
But it is still noteworthy for wind to be the biggest input during working hours.
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