New wind record?

[Fintray]

Just spoken to my sister, and she's sent a pick of the hay bin, and food trays in the middle of their field, where the storm shelter for their alpaca's should be.

Has she found the alpacas yet?

[Mart]

Just spoken to my sister, and she's sent a pick of the hay bin, and food trays in the middle of their field, where the storm shelter for their alpaca's should be.

Has she found the alpacas yet?

Yep, still got six in the field and barn, but no idea if they are the original six.

[dan_b]

Wind is basically stuck at 20.4 GW - must be grid constraints as there is demand

[dan_b]

Hit 22GW last night according to iamkate.

The National Grid App still has 21.8GW in Dec 2023 as the wind gen record - wonder which is correct?

[nowty]

Hit 22GW last night according to iamkate.

The National Grid App still has 21.8GW in Dec 2023 as the wind gen record - wonder which is correct?

Depends how you measure it because approx a third is unmetered, at least on a live basis so a fair bit is estimation.

I also think the "official" NESO record is either the min or average over a standard 30 min slot and they do a fair amount of verification before they announce a record and its always a bit lower than is shown elsewhere. Its still possible that the record has been broken but needs the (mon to fri) day team to be back at their desks early in the week.

Solar records are even harder as there is even more estimation and based on the official installed capacity which notoriously lags real time. We have sometimes had a new solar record announced weeks or months later when it turned out there was much more capacity installed and the numbers are rerun.

EDIT - I notice the iamkate website is saying their number is an average over a half hour slot,

"New wind power records are set regularly, and between 9:30pm and 10:00pm on 5th December 2024 British wind farms averaged a record 22.02GW of generation."

[GarethC]

Iamkate showed 22.1GW earlier today, which I think is 0.1GW higher than the figures I saw earlier.

Looks like wind averaged over 20GW in the last 24hrs. Surely a record. I'm more interested in day and month averages these days than the short term peak figures.

[nowty]

Its difficult to get the data without paying for it but gridwatch.templar has free historic data but they only log the metered wind data which has averaged 14.757GW over the past 24 hours 6pm yesterday to 6pm today. The variance was between 13.837GW to 15.355GW.

I'll have a look back last year around the last record to see what the average was.

[nowty]

The first bit of data I looked at 6pm to 6pm 21st to 22nd Dec 2023 (last record day and may still be the official record), the average wind was higher at 14.957GW with variance between 12.928GW and 16.698GW.

The problem with the last 24hrs is its weekend with lower demand compared with the last record which was a weekday.

Edit - Just checked the average demand over the two 24 hour periods as a sanity check, last year was 29.316GW and the last 24 hours was 30.474GW so we have actually had a higher demand this time around at the weekend.

[Oliver90owner]

Maybe some turbines shut down due to the high winds?

[Ken]

more EV and HP ?