Great Day today for the wind farms :-) and Solar :-)

b****r :-(

Dogger Bank A Offshore Wind Farm Completion Slips to Second Half of 2025. SSE has revealed that the completion of Dogger Bank A, the first of the three phases of the UK's Dogger Bank Wind Farm, is projected for the second half of 2025, which is later than the previously expected first half of the year.
 
Gas to the rescue! :D

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Solar struggling, but has a little leg up from wind. Gas still powering away keeping the lights on.


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Meanwhile in Scotland.... I'm 1.2% away from painting my face blue and white and screaming freedom. :D

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not to bad these eve decent wind

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Interesting to look at the regions, live as of now:

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A different view for current live generation. Certainly highlights our unfortunate reliance on gas.

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Ouch.

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My point was government failure to see the bigger picture is still continuing.
International and home investors will not invest in industry that has a huge cost disadvantage. So forget about rachels growth
 
vintageman said:
I've previously commented on the high price of our uk electricity.
What's interesting is that the link to gas powered generation is not the reason as the gas price is around other industrial countries median. It's the subsidies for renewables that are pushing uk prices ever skywards.

https://iea.org.uk/were-number-one-in-unaffordable-electricity/
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The price of gas is still a contributing factor. I've not checked, but my first thought with regard to the comparison against other European countries is how often do they have to fire up their gas stations compared to the UK, or are their coal, nuclear, hydro etc able to take up the slack instead and therefore keep prices down?

Dynamic pricing might be one potential solution and could also encourage people to be more careful with their electricity use.

But that aside, it doesn't surprise me in the slightest that the renewables are costing us a fortune as you have pointed to. Incidentally, the discussion on the radio this morning was about the permanently sealing up of the only two shale gas wells left in the UK. I'm not sure why they need to be permanently sealed, you never know what crisis may hit us in the future and they could be useful in an emergency.
 
Meh.

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And here's France, barely sniffing the gas.

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vintageman said:
My point was government failure to see the bigger picture is still continuing.
International and home investors will not invest in industry that has a huge cost disadvantage. So forget about rachels growth
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the main thing is we keep investment going and if the consumer has to
suck up higher prices for a short while so be it once we get to where we need to be then
things will improve, being greener isn't cheaper but it is much better for the country and the planet,
 
Not such a good day today - for one wind farm, at least. 3rd in 10 years on this farm, apparently,

www.bbc.co.uk

Cambridgeshire wind turbine on fire

The blaze broke out at a farm on Sunday morning.
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Nod said:
Not such a good day today - for one wind farm, at least. 3rd in 10 years on this farm, apparently,

www.bbc.co.uk

Cambridgeshire wind turbine on fire

The blaze broke out at a farm on Sunday morning.
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I'm surprised more don't fail this way, those massive turbines turning 24/7/365 must go through bearings etc. very quickly.
 
Steep said:
I'm surprised more don't fail this way, those massive turbines turning 24/7/365 must go through bearings etc. very quickly.
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i agree they must have a hard life especially ones in massive wind areas

decent day today, mind you i am sat in Spain at the Gran Canaria at the moment and they have a lot of wind farms as well
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100% renewables in North Scotland.

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Bad day for clean energy, BP are not making enough profits apparently :-(

BP's net income fell to $8.9bn (£7.2bn) in 2024, down from $13.8bn the previous year.

www.bbc.co.uk

BP profits drop as it says it will reset strategy

The oil giant is widely expected to say it will scale back on renewables later this month.
www.bbc.co.uk
 
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Green light for £4bn England-Scotland power link​

16 August, 2024 By Greg Pitcher

Ofgem has approved construction of a £4.3bn subsea electricity connector between England and Scotland.
The regulator gave its final approval of the cost of the Eastern Green Link 2 (EGL2) project.
This means construction can begin of the 525kV, 2GW subsea connection between Peterhead in North East Scotland and Drax in North Yorkshire.
Milan-based Prysmian Group will supply about 1,000km of cable for the scheme, while Hitachi Energy and Bam will build converter stations at both ends of the link.
Construction could begin this year, with the connector due to be operational by the end of the decade. Aberdeenshire Council recently granted planning consent for the converter station near Peterhead.
To be delivered by a joint venture of National Grid and SSEN Transmission, the connector will be the longest HVDC subsea cable in the UK.
While Ofgem calculated an "expected nominal investment" of £3.4bn, this is based on 2018/19 prices, meaning it has already soared by about £900M due to inflation.
 
Many people in our area would prefer our peat bog moorland preserved, instead of the turbines. However, I can't see that happening unfortunately.
 
dcash29 said:
Many people in our area would prefer our peat bog moorland preserved, instead of the turbines. However, I can't see that happening unfortunately.
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I think many people would like all kinds of things to not go ahead, but the reality is we simply need to move forward with renewables until something else is available.
it might be we are dismantling them in 30/40 years time when we perfect fusion or another technology
but we simply can't keep burning fossil fuels whatever the next step is.
 
We need the turbines because we fell behind on building alternatives which take 30 years to build and are out of date when commissioned. However, I feel instead of ruining the countryside apposed to building elsewhere isn't appropriate and IMO and is solely based on who owns the land and who making the money.
 
I would have thought tidal to be a better alternative to invest in, it's guaranteed for starters, unlike the wind.
 
Ouch!

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Looking good Scotland...

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Been not looking at this lately and yeah good

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love this time of year that
solar starts to climb

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super day today :-)
 
Holy Moly almost 70% renewables, outstanding :)

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I should get some payback at last , The previous 3 months have been dire , 10 panel system.
 
As we know, there's an amber warning in place re heat until Tuesday. Tomorrow London and the SE is forecast to get to 33-35ºC...in old money 91-95ºF Thunderstorms in the north.

In our house it's now 28ºC and 58% humidity. Very uncomfortable so we have a couple of tower fans on. They're ok if you are within a couple of feet of them..otherwise.
 
I love this time of the year for the renewables :-)
so much free sun

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Mr Bump said:
I love this time of the year for the renewables :)
so much free sun

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Though, today, we are reliant on the interconnectors......none too sure whether that would be overall lack of capacity or the cost of those interconnected sources is cheaper?
 
Box Brownie said:
Though, today, we are reliant on the interconnectors......none too sure whether that would be overall lack of capacity or the cost of those interconnected sources is cheaper?
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its just cheaper, most of EU is Nuclear so there is generally plenty spare in the summer, way cheaper than GAS
 
Nuclear going full pelt in Scotland. I'm actually surprised the wind isn't higher as it's erm, windy today.

Need to up that biomass and get rid of gas.

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