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Re:U.K. offshore wind park may generate power cheaper than b... by isostatic on Friday September 20, 2019 @02:17PM (#21029687)
> The UK’s already up to 50% nuclear and renewables on the electricity grid

In the last year UK produced

  Coal: 3%
  Gas: 42%
  Nuclear: 20%
  Wind: 17%
  Solar: 4%
  Hydro: 1.4%
  Biomass: 6.4%
  Pumped 0.66%
So 28% renewable, 20% nuclear, total of about half.

Wow.

The good news is we're not overproducing - even on the most renewable days (Aug 17 at 15:15) when 44% came from wind and 25% from solar, we still had 12% coming from gas, 5% from biomass

(edit - looked at wrong row on my spreadsheet!)

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Re:U.K. offshore wind park may generate power cheaper than b... by fyfy18 on Friday September 20, 2019 @03:10PM (#21030161)
For anyone curious, most of the UKs nuclear power is due to be comissioned in the next decade. However most reactors have received short term extensions.

There's currently one reactor under construction, and a bunch more planned, so I expect the current reactors will receive extensions until these or renewables take over.

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Re:U.K. offshore wind park may generate power cheaper than b... by hollerith on Friday September 20, 2019 @02:21PM (#21029732)
Do you happen to know if all the natural gas used to generate electricity in the UK comes from the UK's territory (e.g., the part of the North Sea where they enjoy mineral rights)?
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Re:U.K. offshore wind park may generate power cheaper than b... by isostatic on Friday September 20, 2019 @02:30PM (#21029812)
We use gas a lot in central heating (and cooking)

However looking at https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2018/03/16/uk-...

Looks like equal parts domestic gas, electricity, and industry

About half imported, half mined in the UK.

From that page:

"The vast bulk of imports comes direct from Norway. Technically, Russian gas can only arrive via the Belgian and Dutch pipelines, which amount to 10% of total imports. It is estimated that 35% of Europe’s gas comes from Russia, so in theory about 3% of Britain’s gas comes from Russia."

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Re:U.K. offshore wind park may generate power cheaper than b... by Robotbeat on Friday September 20, 2019 @02:53PM (#21030008)
The UK has some LNG import terminals so could import from elsewhere if required.
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