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Re: GB National Grid Status

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Loads of on-shore wind is likewise not metered. If you own a hill top farm, especially if you have industrial electricity loads (e.g. milking cows, lighting barns full of hens) it makes loads of sense to buy a modest turbine and install it on a suitable rise, it won't pay for itself over night but it's very competitive with other farm investments and not correlated. If electricity prices go up the turbine is better v…

That seems very large - I can’t imagine plain farm owners could reach that kind of wind capacity, are you sure that’s accurate?

No, I'm not sure it's accurate because it's guessed by looking at suppressed demand.

There's no central register of unmetered power generation, the assumption used is that if on a windy day mysteriously we're buying 25GW from the grid across the country, while on a similar but calm day it was 30GW that suggests 5GW of electricity is not being purchased when it's windy, implying 5GW of unmetered electricity supply from wind.

And there are presumably other embedded systems making up some of that 5GW estimate. Farms just seem obvious because 1) I've seen farms with wind turbines 2) They're industrial scale electricity users, often occupying terrain very suitable for a wind turbine

Re: GB National Grid Status

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On Friday, December 9th at ~4:00pm GMT (Greenwich mean time): Nuclear: 5.25 GW Wind: 3.84 GW Combined Cycle Gas Turbines: 23.31 GW Solar (Estimated): 0.35GW Installed Wind Capacity (onshore + offshore): 25 GW [0] Installed Solar Capacity: 13.4 GW [1] Total installed Wind/Solar: 38.4 GW. Total produced: 4.11 GW Wind is currently producing 15% of its installed capacity. Solar is producing 2.6% of its installed capacity…

There's a few things that help with periods of low wind: More long distance transmission / interconnects Vehicle-to-grid Grid scale battery storage Domestic and commercial battery storage (Powerwall etc) Seasonal thermal storage - large insulated tanks or ground source heat pumps These all exist, and there will be more new technology coming. It doesn't seem like an unsolvable problem.

You don't even need vehicle to grid. Just a discount for charging when there's curtailment.

Most regions can get by with no storage using that one change.

Re: GB National Grid Status

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They already are. Scotland has hit 100% renewable energy already on a few days.

This is false. https://fullfact.org/environment/scotland-renewable-energy/

No, it’s not false, that article takes a deliberately obtuse definition and uses it to debunk something which wasn’t claimed.

Clearly due to the nature of grids and shared generation nobody can guarantee that all electrons used came from wind power (nor does anyone care!?!) but Scotland is an exporter of energy and at times its entire needs could be met from its renewable generation.

Not sure which part of Scotland producing lots of renewable energy you find difficult to cope with, but renewable production is here to stay, cheaper than other sources and a growing part of the mix.

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