Offshore Wind Farm to Power More Than One Million U.K. Homes
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#2Does anyone have a mirror to this that's not behind the WSJ paywall? Thanks.
Re: Offshore Wind Farm to Power More Than One Million U.K. Homes
#3Does anyone have a mirror to this that's not behind the WSJ paywall? Thanks.
Hit web under the article title.
Re: Offshore Wind Farm to Power More Than One Million U.K. Homes
#4Does anyone have a mirror to this that's not behind the WSJ paywall? Thanks.
Alternative source: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/03/worlds-la...
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#5From the article - wind power is projected to reach 30gw worldwide in 2019 - for comparison nuclear power worldwide reached 300gw in the 1980's.
Re: Offshore Wind Farm to Power More Than One Million U.K. Homes
#6From the article - wind power is projected to reach 30gw worldwide in 2019 - for comparison nuclear power worldwide reached 300gw in the 1980's.
I'm not sure what they're referencing there, but GWEC keeps better numbers and we're well over 400GW installed worldwide by now:
http://www.gwec.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Global-Cumula...
We're adding more than 50GW/year now, which should easily put us over the amount of nameplate capacity nuclear installed worldwide. Within the next decade, wind will surpass Nuclear in actual twh of generation as well.
If you assume nuclear is about 400GW installed worldwide and a 90% capacity factor, then wind would only need 900GW installed to match output at a 40% capacity factor. NREL just realeased data that shows potential capacity factors of 60% on over 2 million acres in the US:
http://apps2.eere.energy.gov/wind/windexchange/windmaps/reso...
Wind and solar are steadily eating world power generation.
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#7From the article - wind power is projected to reach 30gw worldwide in 2019 - for comparison nuclear power worldwide reached 300gw in the 1980's.
30GWe is not bad, considering its up from 8GWe in 2014.
for comparison nuclear power worldwide reached 300gw in the 1980's
... And has largely stagnated since, even declining a bit since the mid-2000s.
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#8Nice! Always good news when there's more investment in renewable energy sources.
I only read the one in the guardian so it might be answered there but isn't higher transmission loss another con for offshore wind farms? How do they deal with that?
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#9From the article - wind power is projected to reach 30gw worldwide in 2019 - for comparison nuclear power worldwide reached 300gw in the 1980's.
I'm not sure what they're referencing there, but GWEC keeps better numbers and we're well over 400GW installed worldwide by now: http://www.gwec.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Global-Cumula... We're adding more than 50GW/year now, which should easily put us over the amount of nameplate capacity nuclear installed worldwide. Within the next decade, wind will surpass Nuclear in actual twh of generation as well. If you a…
I'm not sure what they're referencing there, but GWEC keeps better numbers and we're well over 400GW installed worldwide by now
They may have been referring to installed capacity in the UK, not worldwide. 30GW by 2019 sounds about right.
Wind supplied 17% of the UK's entire electricity demand in December 2015
Re: Offshore Wind Farm to Power More Than One Million U.K. Homes
#10From the article - wind power is projected to reach 30gw worldwide in 2019 - for comparison nuclear power worldwide reached 300gw in the 1980's.
I'm not sure what they're referencing there, but GWEC keeps better numbers and we're well over 400GW installed worldwide by now: http://www.gwec.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Global-Cumula... We're adding more than 50GW/year now, which should easily put us over the amount of nameplate capacity nuclear installed worldwide. Within the next decade, wind will surpass Nuclear in actual twh of generation as well. If you a…
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