By Paul Homewood
It won’t have escaped your attention that the weather has been dry,sunny and settled during the past week As a result, wind power has been negligible, averaging 1.01GW, or 3% of total demand:
Effectively this means that wind farms are only running at about 5% of their capacity.
Meanwhile, gas has provided 53.7%, with another 3.5% from coal.
The situation has been similar in Germany, with wind power nearly drying up for four days, and over the week averaging only 9% of total generation.
Their grid was only kept going with coal and gas, 41% and 12% respectively.
Germany does have more solar capacity, which contributed 16% of the total, but this is only really useful for about three hours a day, around noon, rather than early morning or evening when demand peaks.
http://energodock.com/germany/electricity-generation
It is also worth pointing out that in the middle of winter solar power only supplied 2% of total generation:
As with the UK, electricity only accounts for a small proportion of total energy consumption, about a sixth.
In terms of primary energy consumption, wind only makes up 8%, with solar another 4%.
https://ourworldindata.org/energy/country/germany?country=~DEU
It is abundantly clear that we cannot rely on importing power from Europe in our Net Zero future, as they will be as badly off as us.
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March 29, 2022 at 11:21AM
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