Spike <
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Spike <Aero.Spike@mail.invalid> wrote:
1155h:
Wind and solar are producing 31.8% of demand
Nuclear and CCGT are producing 40% of demand
In 2022, oil and gas produced 71% of UK demand
7th June: wind still producing a miserable 3GW, and hasn’t exceeded 5GW since 22 May, except for a very brief excursion to 7GW in the evening of
1st June.
8th June: wind now over 4GW! Still lower than nuclear. It’s been like this for a week.
In 2022, oil and gas produced 71% of UK demand - where were the fabulously expensive, heavily subsidised renewables?
Did you know that operators of 1MW turbines throttle them back to less that half-power, because the subsidies for lower output are so much greater?
What’s the point in filling the North Sea with huge turbines that only run
at a fraction of their rated power? Apart from making the operators
shedloads of money and keeping bills unnecessarily high, that is?
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Spike
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