UK wind record

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Ralphw2
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Re: UK wind record

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RWE has bought the Norfolk windfarm cluster that Vattenfal pulled out of, so that is one project back on the drawing board.
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Re: UK wind record

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Not a wind record, but with wind at 15gw and solar at 8gw, total UK fossil powered electricity is below 1gw at close to peak weekdays demand.

Is this a record low for carbon emissions?
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Re: UK wind record

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Ralphw2 wrote: 15 Apr 2024, 14:11 Not a wind record, but with wind at 15gw and solar at 8gw, total UK fossil powered electricity is below 1gw at close to peak weekdays demand.

Is this a record low for carbon emissions?
I suspect that it might be a record low for carbon intensity of electricity production, or very close thereto.
CCGT at below 1 GW is very rare.
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UK wind power has been over 10GW for the last 24 hours, and did reach about 14 GW at one point.
Some way short of a record, but might be a new record for summer.

We even stopped importing electricity from France.
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