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Re:The UK is wasting a lot of wind power by SamBam on Thursday January 12, 2023 @06:05PM (#34361519)
I really feel like you misunderstood the article. Perhaps you went into it with a different assumption of what it was going to say.

The article is saying that if we built more transmission lines, or increased storage capacity, or had localized pricing, that more of the power generated would get used, and we wouldn't need to turn on the fossil-powered plants as much.

More wind wasted is precisely equal to more fossil fuel burnt right now.

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Re:The UK is wasting a lot of wind power by makomk on Thursday January 12, 2023 @07:35PM (#34362416)
The thing is that some of those options (especially building more storage) might actually be more expensive and less practical than just building even more wind and letting a lot of the power from it be "wasted".
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Re:The UK is wasting a lot of wind power by mcfedr on Friday January 13, 2023 @03:16AM (#34365191)
That assumes the problem of building wind far away from usage changes, right now most new wind is still being built in Scotland, and the problem will get worse not better without also investing in transmission
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