Solar record?

[Fintray]

A little off topic perhaps, but still a solar record albeit world wide and highlighting stagnating output from the more traditional forms of energy generation.

Australia among world’s solar and wind champions

New data shows Sweden, Australia, Netherlands, Germany and Denmark are the leading countries for per capita solar and wind generation capacity. Furthermore, it reveals global solar capacity has been doubling every three years, and wind every six years, whereas fossil and nuclear capacity and generation have been almost static in recent years.

https://www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2 ... -159300013

If Scotland was classed individually then it would be at or near the top of that list on wind power alone.

[AE-NMidlands]

A little off topic perhaps, but still a solar record albeit world wide and highlighting stagnating output from the more traditional forms of energy generation.

Australia among world’s solar and wind champions

New data shows Sweden, Australia, Netherlands, Germany and Denmark are the leading countries for per capita solar and wind generation capacity. Furthermore, it reveals global solar capacity has been doubling every three years, and wind every six years, whereas fossil and nuclear capacity and generation have been almost static in recent years.

https://www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2 ... -159300013

If Scotland was classed individually then it would be at or near the top of that list on wind power alone.

...which reminds me of an awful old joke from I'm Sorry I haven't a Clue:
Q: "How do you halve the UK's heart disease, alcoholism and obesity epidemic?"

A: Scottish Independence!"
which is probably completely wrong, as I bet England is pretty similar to Scotland anyway.

[nowty]

So the highest on that article is just over an annual 4 MWh's per person and the UK average is just under 1.5 MWh per person.

The secret list average of 188 members is an annual 6.63 MWh's per person and thats personal ownership.
https://camelot-forum.co.uk/phpBB3/view ... 250#p58880

There are a few overseas contributors in there but thats going to be well under 1%.

[Adokforme]

A little off topic perhaps, but still a solar record albeit world wide and highlighting stagnating output from the more traditional forms of energy generation.

Australia among world’s solar and wind champions

New data shows Sweden, Australia, Netherlands, Germany and Denmark are the leading countries for per capita solar and wind generation capacity. Furthermore, it reveals global solar capacity has been doubling every three years, and wind every six years, whereas fossil and nuclear capacity and generation have been almost static in recent years.

https://www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2 ... -159300013

If Scotland was classed individually then it would be at or near the top of that list on wind power alone.

I haven't crunched any numbers but certainly agree with you there Fintray, they have rather put those of us south of the border to shame on that. I wouldn't mind betting they are near the top when it comes energy storage also having an almost perfect landscape and rainfall for it.
Looking at solar in isolaion then when I did a brief comparison on capacity per head installed per month in '23, while here in the UK we totalled 1.01 W's, China managed 7 W's, Germany 11.9 W's and Holland 18.8 W's.
As Mart suggested now would be a great time to take advantage of Trump's trade war with a likely abundance of surplus solar panels waiting to be snapped up.

[Ken]

https://www.solarpowerportal.co.uk/ofge ... -solar-pv/

Ofgem, the energy regulator, has officially approved plans to spike ‘zombie’ projects from the grid connection queue and streamline the connection of renewable energy projects that are most needed, which could result in a sizeable increase in utility-scale solar PV proposals.

The long-anticipated grid connection reforms were first put forward by the National Energy System Operator (NESO) with the aim of reducing the number of projects awaiting connection to the UK electricity grid.

According to the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), companies are currently waiting up to 15 years to be connected, with the length of the queue growing tenfold in the last five years.

Ofgem said that as of February 2025, 756GW worth of projects were in the queue, with 587GW at transmission and 178GW on the distribution network. These figures far exceed what is needed for either Clean Power 2030 (CP30) or net zero by 2050.

As such, the regulator has made good on its minded-to decision to approve the reforms. The details of how the new process will work are mostly unchanged from earlier this year.

[dan_b]

Posted it here too from another source
https://camelot-forum.co.uk/phpBB3/view ... =18&t=3839