Part ownership of a Ripple Wind Turbine, fancy it?

[Joeboy]

15.5mph winds on site and consistent and the generation has simply fallen off a cliff in the last two hours. That is not good.

I was expecting today to be absolutely banging, current wind looks excellent, should be around 3/4 power.
Of course the maintenance team were down there yesterday, maybe they are still there.

I mailed them this morning. (E chat) and they said they will get back to me. I will report back.

[Joeboy]

This in.

'Hi Joe
 
Thanks for getting in touch earlier today.
 
We currently have a team from Boston Energy on site at Graig Fatha, which may be having an impact on the generation data that you can see. I can see from your generation data that the generation has been consistent all night last night, and any impact has only really been felt in the past couple of hours, with the projected generation for the rest of the day looking good as well. 
 
I can confirm that at present there is no curtailment happening at Graig Fatha at present, if in the event that there was to be any curtailment in the future, we would make our members aware.
 
I'm keen to point out that, with Graig Fatha being a new turbine, there may be times when the data feed may drop out. We constantly monitor the data, and have regular teams on site to ensure that it is as operational as functionally possible - indeed since Graig Fatha has begun generation, it has exceeded expectations in terms of generation. We will always endeavour to ensure that the data is there for our members, and in times when the data isn't there, we will communicate the reasons for this as quickly as possible. 
 
I hope this helps
Thanks again
Pete
Team Ripple

System (Ripple Energy)'

2 Aug 2022, 09:31

[nowty]

We currently have a team from Boston Energy on site at Graig Fatha, which may be having an impact on the generation data that you can see.

Like the little snippets of info we get.
https://bostonenergy.co.uk/services/mai ... -services/

[Joeboy]

She's up and running again.

[nowty]

She's up and running again.

Boom, up to near 2/3 power, not quite 3/4, but I'll bank that in the VB.

[Joeboy]

She's up and running again.

Boom, up to near 2/3 power, not quite 3/4, but I'll bank that in the VB.

It's good to see, I hope they work through any issues before Sept/Oct rev up for the running season.

SWMBO has mentioned biomass plant to me...

[nowty]

SWMBO has mentioned biomass plant to me...

Ripple discounted biomass for a project, as it needs "biomass" which is a commodity, the price of which is unknown into the future. I also have had a couple of investments where their biomass parts went bad due to a number of factors.

Efficiency not as expected and increase of biomass cost as well as availability of biomass. There are too many factors which gives too wide a variation on yields. Whereas you know where you are with Solar (+- 5%) and Wind (+-10%). Hydro is a bit more variable but not too bad.

[Joeboy]

SWMBO has mentioned biomass plant to me...

Ripple discounted biomass for a project, as it needs "biomass" which is a commodity, the price of which is unknown into the future. I also have had a couple of investments where their biomass parts went bad due to a number of factors.

Efficiency not as expected and increase of biomass cost as well as availability of biomass. There are too many factors which gives too wide a variation on yields. Whereas you know where you are with Solar (+- 5%) and Wind (+-10%). Hydro is a bit more variable but not too bad.

I think she means a wee home plant to cook off of in the garage. Good info on the larger investment window though.

[nowty]

WT1 power now at 74.6%, very close to 3/4 power.

[Joeboy]

WT1 power now at 74.6%, very close to 3/4 power.

An excellent pre cursor for the main event, Winter No1 WT1.