UK Wind Record

[Marcus]

Just been on -
https://grid.iamkate.com/
It's showing wind at 20.75 GW, Solar 2.3, emissions 71g/MWh and a price of £0.00/MWh!

A good time to be on Octopus Agile I assume!

I find myself wondering if there's the possibility of a new wind record in terms of % of grid from wind rather than absolute GW. As i understand it, the nuclear fleet (if it still qualifies as a 'fleet'), doesn't/didn't help with frequency stability as that option wasn't installed. So could we end up with a few Gw fossil for stability and higher % wind?

[nowty]

Just been on -
https://grid.iamkate.com/
It's showing wind at 20.75 GW, Solar 2.3, emissions 71g/MWh and a price of £0.00/MWh!

A good time to be on Octopus Agile I assume!

I find myself wondering if there's the possibility of a new wind record in terms of % of grid from wind rather than absolute GW. As i understand it, the nuclear fleet (if it still qualifies as a 'fleet'), doesn't/didn't help with frequency stability as that option wasn't installed. So could we end up with a few Gw fossil for stability and higher % wind?

I've just done a number crunch using Gridwatch data over the past 5 years to include COVID lockdowns in case there was a weird extra low demand day. (windrecord for searching)

Highest Wind V Demand, choosing just the highest on each individual day was,
62.51 % @ 2023-01-05 22:55:39
62.50 % @ 2023-01-11 03:40:41
61.94 % @ 2023-01-06 00:20:40
61.84 % @ 2023-01-08 00:35:39
61.74 % @ 2023-01-14 23:45:40
61.61 % @ 2023-01-15 01:35:39
61.41 % @ 2022-12-30 03:40:41

Highest today and looked like with some curtailment to me, with Storm Otto was,
58.85 % @ 2023-02-17 05:30:42

So we now have some data to compare for a future record.
Its only a matter of time but I don't think we will have one till the next storm passes.

[Tinbum]

Burning coal this evening.

[hoggy]

Nothing to add really other than I'm happy Terravolt has proven useful/reliable for people.

[Tinbum]

Forecasting seems to have been a little out over the last few days.

[hoggy]

Yes it's all a bit woolly when it's mild.
Just so you know, the BM Reports portal your viewing that on is getting killed off this year.
Replaced with: https://bmrs.elexon.co.uk/wind-generation

[Tinbum]

Yes it's all a bit woolly when it's mild.
Just so you know, the BM Reports portal your viewing that on is getting killed off this year.
Replaced with: https://bmrs.elexon.co.uk/wind-generation

Thanks, signed up for the new one a week ago.

[nowty]

Its windy out there today,
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-65038617


And looking like plenty of curtailment going on.

[ecogeorge]

We all keep looking for a new wind record , but what about solar ? seems good today ......... Are we in for a record pv summer ?
George

[nowty]

We all keep looking for a new wind record , but what about solar ? seems good today ......... Are we in for a record pv summer ?
George

Midday (GMT) generation today around 8.47GW verses the record of 9.89GW set midday (GMT) on 22/04/2021.
(solarrecord for searching)
So we are due for one.
https://www.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/

Edit - The max solar today has been revised upwards to 8.56GW.