UK Wind Record
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04:30 this morning 12% of available power was leaving U.K. by cables.
Re: UK Wind Record
Yes.Joeboy wrote: ↑Sat Jan 29, 2022 9:19 amIs pumped hydro literally water up to a reservoir at altitude while there is excess RE?AE-NMidlands wrote: ↑Sat Jan 29, 2022 9:17 amand here, on top of that it is only predicted to go quiet until tomorrow (Sunday) evening, then getting blowy again for quite a while, >40mph in the night and again Tuesday day.
Good news for displacing gas, but with the low demand I'm a bit surprised that pumped hydro isn't recharging rather than delivering.
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I see now that we are importing 5.5GW, with high wind gen and low gas gen.ALAN/ALAN D wrote: ↑Sat Jan 29, 2022 9:26 am 04:30 this morning 12% of available power was leaving U.K. by cables.
Would that be because the import leccy is cheaper than gas generation, perhaps mainland Europe has lots of excess?
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Sounds like a damn good idea to me, for wildlife too. Let's have plenty more of that.Stinsy wrote: ↑Sat Jan 29, 2022 9:51 amYes.Joeboy wrote: ↑Sat Jan 29, 2022 9:19 amIs pumped hydro literally water up to a reservoir at altitude while there is excess RE?AE-NMidlands wrote: ↑Sat Jan 29, 2022 9:17 am
and here, on top of that it is only predicted to go quiet until tomorrow (Sunday) evening, then getting blowy again for quite a while, >40mph in the night and again Tuesday day.
Good news for displacing gas, but with the low demand I'm a bit surprised that pumped hydro isn't recharging rather than delivering.
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National Grid ESO app says we hit peak wind generation of 18.431GW today. A lot higher than the grid watch numbers, presumably due to embedded wind generation estimates.
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Possibly a record, but they usually have to crunch the numbers for a day or so before they announce a record.
Energy Numbers gives a better estimate of total wind including the embedded generation.
https://energynumbers.info/gbgrid
Highest on Gridwatch was 14.8GW at 5:20am this morning which is a record on Gridwatch.
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Gridwatch suggests that embedded wind adds 30% more.nowty wrote: ↑Sat Jan 29, 2022 11:17 amPossibly a record, but they usually have to crunch the numbers for a day or so before they announce a record.
Energy Numbers gives a better estimate of total wind including the embedded generation.
https://energynumbers.info/gbgrid
Highest on Gridwatch was 14.8GW at 5:20am this morning which is a record on Gridwatch.
Only my opinion, but they seem to have had that figure for years despite the ever greater rollout of supply side wind, so I tend to use +25% as that brings it in line with Energy Numbers.
So, using my entirely unscientific, wet finger in the air, +25%, 14.8GW gives us 18.5GW, so looking good for a significant uplift in the UK record.
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Re: UK Wind Record
A ten minute snapshot does not make a record - but, if it was maintained for a full half hour, it would.
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Gridwatch.co.uk shows that we have averaged over 14GW from wind so far today, that is the highest I've ever seen not sure if that wil be a record in itself.