By Paul Homewood
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/12/13/wind-doesnt-blow-sometimes-coal-cant-answer/
In Ben Marlow’s article, which I covered yesterday, he made this claim:
Marlow appears to have confused ENERGY with ELECTRICITY, a schoolboy error, which a competent business journalist should not be making.
For the record, in energy terms wind power produced 5.5 Mtoe in 2021. The UK’s total energy output and consumption were 106.6 and 170.1 Mtoe respectively.
But closer analysis shows he is not even correct about wind being 28.5% of electricity output. In 2021, wind power accounted for only 20.9% of the country’s electricity. Even if you take the latest 12 month period, the figure is still only 23.1%.
I have filed this complaint with the Telegraph:
Marlow claims that "wind has provided 28.5pc of our total energy output over the past year. "
This is a gross error. According to BEIS data, wind power only accounts for 5.1% of UK energy output.
I assume he is means ELECTRICITY, rather than ENERGY, a schoolboy error. But even then he is wrong.
In 2021, wind power amounted to 64.66 TWh, against total electricity generation of 308.66 TWh, giving a figure of 20.9%.
Even taking the last 12 months, the figure is still only 23.1%
Readers will have been seriously misled by the mistake, and a prominent correction needs to be published.
If anybody else wishes to complain too, the online complaint form is here:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/contact-us/editorial-complaints/
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