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Re:The world’s biggest offshore wind farm, Hornsea 2, genera... by trebligdivad on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @11:23AM (#29726247)
The UK is doing pretty well today - 39%/13GW Wind energy at the moment which is great; but we have whole months when we'll have near to nothing when there is very little wind (e.g. less than 2GW for a long time), when that happens in the winter when we've not got much Solar, I'm not seeing how Renewables keep us going - maybe if some of the tidal systems get working. Energy storage works great for daily peak/troughs - but not for weeks. So, at the moment I'm assuming we're going to need more nukes to get rid of gas. Roll on Fusion.
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Re:The world’s biggest offshore wind farm, Hornsea 2, genera... by aembleton on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @11:52AM (#29726617)
It is one of the reasons for the new undersea cable to Norway. When we have excess wind then we can pump water up a mountain there, and when we don't the we can release it and recapture some of that energy.

Problem is, that is currently only 1.4GW of capacity. We'll need a whole lot more of it to get fully off gas or nuclear.

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