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July good month for wind power.
Aug 04, 2015
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660,117MWh in July. That's an average power of 0.89GW (660117/31/24).
Scotland's installed wind power capacity is 5.33GW as of March this year.
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So that's a load factor of 16.7% (0.89/5.33x100)
That's good? Bloody hell! I thought wind was generally supposed to achieve around 25%.
Yes, wind sucks. As I type this, wind is at 0.59GW, that's 1.75% of a rather low demand. June and July were fluctuating around 2GW at best.
Meanwhile reliable old nuclear produces just under 20% of demand ATM.
In article , Chris Hogg writes
Nukes are nearer 99%
We were down on the Suffolk coast yesterday. I did point out to my wife that the little white dome down the coast was doing more than every single windmill in the country...
Looks like I was wrong BTW. It's only half what they're all producing ATM.
Andy
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