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

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Spike

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.

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Spike

Spike <Aero.Spike@mail.invalid> wrote:
> 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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