New wind record?

[dan_b]

The wind needle is definitely hard up against the rev limiter again isn't it - seems to sit there at 22GW for quite extended periods.

[Coriolis]

Another wind record notification from NESO this morning: 22.523 GW on 18 December 2024.

[dan_b]

Impressive - especially when at a time of low overnight demand -

Was apparently 68% of all demand at the time

https://renews.biz/97798/wind-sets-new-uk-record/


This is also impressive
"renewables have generated over 50% of Britain’s electricity for the last four consecutive quarters for the first time (Q4 2023 to Q3 2024)."
Although I suspect Drax and its wood burning stoves are probably factored into that.

[nowty]

Another wind record notification from NESO this morning: 22.523 GW on 18 December 2024.

Tagged windrecord.

[GarethC]

I'm actually pretty disappointed that wind power will only average about 9.4GW this year, up from 8.8GW two years ago. That's fairly paltry growth, and surely wind power capacity has grown by a lot more than that.

I assume curtailment has a lot to answer for. Luckily other trends have been positive, such that fossil fuel generation is down sharply (largely transfers), but we still need much faster growth than this...