By Paul Homewood

Repost from Prisms UK:

The UK’s installed wind power capacity is 19,261 MW

TOTAL: Operational Capacity

Load Factor for all wind: 30.1%

Statistics Explained

At 30.1% load factor, 19,261 MW of capacity is generating on average over the year 5,797.6 MW.

But for a 13 day x 24 hour period (312 hours) it only generated 963.4 MW.

That’s 4,834.2 MW lower than average.

For battery storage to make up this shortfall it would have to deliver

4,834.2 MW x 312 hours: 1,508,270 MWh

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July 29, 2018 at 07:47AM