| Wind power is important 17:52 - Feb 23 with 412 views | ReslovenSwan1 |
Right wing people hate wind power for some reason. Everyone knows It does not blow everyday and it can go several days without wind. Germans call it 'Dunkelflaute'.
You can follow the percentage of (I presume) electricity generation with this app.
https://www.energydashboard.co.uk/live
Close in 50% wind power. Welsh does not get it's fair share of the generation fees to help us become economically self sustainable. [Post edited 23 Feb 18:34]
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| Wind power is important on 18:07 - Feb 23 with 374 views | JACKMANANDBOY |
It's patently obvious you need a mix of power sources. |  |
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| Wind power is important on 18:35 - Feb 23 with 355 views | ReslovenSwan1 |
| Wind power is important on 18:07 - Feb 23 by JACKMANANDBOY |
It's patently obvious you need a mix of power sources. |
The breakdown surprised me. Close on 50% wind power today Sunday 23 February 2025. | |
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| Wind power is important on 18:38 - Feb 23 with 352 views | JACKMANANDBOY |
I've seen up over 60 percent for wind when the conditions allow, I have also seen next to nothing for wind. | |
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| Wind power is important on 18:45 - Feb 23 with 336 views | ReslovenSwan1 |
| Wind power is important on 18:38 - Feb 23 by JACKMANANDBOY |
I've seen up over 60 percent for wind when the conditions allow, I have also seen next to nothing for wind. |
There was a windless spell November 2024. | |
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| Wind power is important on 18:52 - Feb 23 with 320 views | JACKMANANDBOY |
| Wind power is important on 18:45 - Feb 23 by ReslovenSwan1 |
There was a windless spell November 2024. |
Not much sun either I would guess! | |
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| Wind power is important on 20:00 - Feb 23 with 290 views | majorraglan |
Unfortunately the price we pay for our electric is linked to the cost of the most expensive electricity supply which is gas generated electricity.
If we want to drive costs down, it’s going to mean a massive investment in renewables so that we can avoid turning the gas power plants on.
https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/electricity-pricing |  | | |
| Wind power is important on 21:45 - Feb 23 with 243 views | ReslovenSwan1 |
| Wind power is important on 20:00 - Feb 23 by majorraglan |
Unfortunately the price we pay for our electric is linked to the cost of the most expensive electricity supply which is gas generated electricity.
If we want to drive costs down, it’s going to mean a massive investment in renewables so that we can avoid turning the gas power plants on.
https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/electricity-pricing |
Being clean never comes cheap or easy. In my kitchen the cheapest way is to never clean and just build up a load of crap and clean it once a month.
It is better and more expensive not to generate any crap and clean every day. It is a principle we live by.
In parts of India they put landfill straight into the river and burn coal. I do not live like them and their lifestyle is their choice and they have to take the consequences. Chinese people become wealthier and will demand clean air to breathe.
I do not see clean living as compromised because some Asians live in and produce crap. [Post edited 24 Feb 12:40]
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| Wind power is important on 23:01 - Feb 23 with 212 views | Luther27 |
| Wind power is important on 20:00 - Feb 23 by majorraglan |
Unfortunately the price we pay for our electric is linked to the cost of the most expensive electricity supply which is gas generated electricity.
If we want to drive costs down, it’s going to mean a massive investment in renewables so that we can avoid turning the gas power plants on.
https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/electricity-pricing |
The majority of houses in the UK require electric. When it comes to heating however, the majority I imagine use gas but the customer has a choice here by switching to electric heating….solar or even heat pumps.
So…when it comes to raising tax which source do you think the Govt would choose? | | | |
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| Wind power is important on 07:07 - Feb 24 with 157 views | felixstowe_jack |
You will probably find right wing people have a high percentage of solar panels, storage batteries EV and heat pumps than left wing people. Your statement is a very bad example of left wing generalisation.
The UK is a country so some parts produce more wind power generated electricity than others. Particularly the North Sea. The whole of the UK benefits.
Just as Wales has benefited in the past and still does from North Sea oil and gas.
The constant theme of yours of trying to be divisive is petty. | |
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| Wind power is important on 07:56 - Feb 24 with 146 views | Kilkennyjack |
| Wind power is important on 07:07 - Feb 24 by felixstowe_jack |
You will probably find right wing people have a high percentage of solar panels, storage batteries EV and heat pumps than left wing people. Your statement is a very bad example of left wing generalisation.
The UK is a country so some parts produce more wind power generated electricity than others. Particularly the North Sea. The whole of the UK benefits.
Just as Wales has benefited in the past and still does from North Sea oil and gas.
The constant theme of yours of trying to be divisive is petty. |
Are you on about Brexit again ?
Its also weird how the uk is country and the whole of the uk benefits.
We wish.
London was richest part of Europe but just 3 hours away in south Wales we have some of the poorest parts of Europe.
Does not sound like the whole of the uk benefits does it ?
Many people feel that London and the south east of England runs an exploitative economy in the uk than benefits themselves.
Try google and loook up ‘critical thinking’ ….🇬🇧 |  |
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| Wind power is important on 08:08 - Feb 24 with 131 views | controversial_jack |
| Wind power is important on 23:01 - Feb 23 by Luther27 |
The majority of houses in the UK require electric. When it comes to heating however, the majority I imagine use gas but the customer has a choice here by switching to electric heating….solar or even heat pumps.
So…when it comes to raising tax which source do you think the Govt would choose? |
The vast majority use gas for heating. I don't know anyone who doesn't.
Heat pumps are rubbish btw, expensive to install too. It would take years to get your money back | | | |
| Wind power is important on 08:47 - Feb 24 with 100 views | AnotherJohn |
This is a story about baseload, batteries (storage), and grid capacity. One part of the debate what happens when there is too little wind to meet the baseload requirement, and another is what happens when there is too much. It is estimated that UK consumers forked out E1.3 billion in "curtailment payments" last year to get companies to turn off wind turbines at times when the grid did not have the capacity to store or use the electricity generated.
https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Wind-Power/Brits-Pay-Billions-To-Waste-W [Post edited 24 Feb 9:20]
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| Wind power is important on 09:09 - Feb 24 with 88 views | Boundy |
| Wind power is important on 08:47 - Feb 24 by AnotherJohn |
This is a story about baseload, batteries (storage), and grid capacity. One part of the debate what happens when there is too little wind to meet the baseload requirement, and another is what happens when there is too much. It is estimated that UK consumers forked out E1.3 billion in "curtailment payments" last year to get companies to turn off wind turbines at times when the grid did not have the capacity to store or use the electricity generated.
https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Wind-Power/Brits-Pay-Billions-To-Waste-W [Post edited 24 Feb 9:20]
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Another problem is until the Grid can accept new connections from new forms of generation then this will continue, there are many new Battery storage sites being approved but again these are at low voltage and tend to feed back into the local grid rather than the national.
Until recently there was a new build wind farm in mid Wales although fully functional couldn't generate as the local grid hadn't had the ability to connect to it. This is repeated across the country where local councils agree to the site being built but it cannot be connected. | |
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| Wind power is important on 12:51 - Feb 24 with 14 views | ReslovenSwan1 |
| Wind power is important on 07:07 - Feb 24 by felixstowe_jack |
You will probably find right wing people have a high percentage of solar panels, storage batteries EV and heat pumps than left wing people. Your statement is a very bad example of left wing generalisation.
The UK is a country so some parts produce more wind power generated electricity than others. Particularly the North Sea. The whole of the UK benefits.
Just as Wales has benefited in the past and still does from North Sea oil and gas.
The constant theme of yours of trying to be divisive is petty. |
It is you that talks about Wales being " subsidised" and needing handouts. This is your narrative not mine.
It is you being divisive and pretty and disrespectful. We have to put up with these turbine on Welsh land after "Nimbys" right wing areas banned them in England.
I am not to bothered about " sharing of resources" but will not accept being labelled as a nation living on subsidies while we have no control over our assets. You are the main poster on this.
It is a fact. All right wing commentators hate wind farms. | |
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