UK Wind Record

[nowty]

There's a howling gale here at the moment, but energynumbers only shows wind at 9.8 GW, less than gas. Are our generators shut down for safety, or are they being "curtailed?"

Probably a bit of both !

[marshman]

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[Mr Gus]

Here on the fens edge the clouds were ominously black around 12.30pm yesterday, a hard but brief sleet & storm winds set in which as I write are still banging things around.

They've built houses in front of my view of the W/T's now so I cant see the rapidity of the spin..
It has been "trying to snow" with a few flakes last night from around 10pm but was too wet to stick.

There was I thinking this was meant to be a northern storm!

[Oliver90owner]

Unless these turbines are small ones (a few kW) the blades will spin at constant speed while generating?

[Stan]

The Carsington group of wind turbines are all about 2.5MWp. In today’s storm, 5 have been stationary, one is moving slowly as though the disc brake is ineffective and the last one is operating at the speed one would expect when working.

[Stan]

The situation with those 7 wind turbines is the same today even though the high winds have gone. It’s Sunday and maybe they need human intervention.

[Oliver90owner]

The situation with those 7 wind turbines is the same today even though the high winds have gone. It’s Sunday and maybe they need human intervention.

Maybe they have lost their connection to the grid?

[nowty]

Will it or wont it tonight, for a record, there is enough forecasted wind resource and it is a weekday.

[Oliver90owner]

there is enough forecasted wind resource and it is a weekday.

And it is decidedly chilly, so more power consumed local to the landfall, meaning there may be less of the generation needing to be shifted across the grid system.

[nowty]

And instead of the usual mid afternoon dip, its still rising, looks like only another 1.5GW to make the record.

Maybe the Xmas lights on are helping too.