For comparison, the U.K. currently has an installed offshore wind generation of around 10GW. The U.K. has an average demand of 34GW and a peak demand of around 59GW.
Given that wind often has an average output on the North Sea of around 60%, this means that on average Offshore wind would be generating around 51GW. Enough to provide nearly all the UK’s electricity most of the time.
This 86GW figure includes newly announced fields to be auctioned, however. So we are still a fair ways off hitting this. Even if they speed up the planning processes with the onshore transformers.
Edit: Corrected it to 10GW of Offshore Wind generation. thanks for the spot r/Donaldbeag.
Credit where credit is due, the CfD regime and other policy decisions have propelled us into a great position. The biggest or most time consuming barrier is now Crown Estate leases and planning objections (cough NIMBYs cough).
We are doing an incredible job on renewables, we have gone from single digit %’s of renewables in our electricity mix, to 50%, in a decade, and we are pressing on. One of the few things that seem to be going well recently.
Awesome. Good news stories are so damned hard to find. Not only is UK moving forward at a right old clip, so is the world market, and now the UK will have expertise that’s in demand globally.
How much of this is due to increased capacity and how much to the fact that the wind was really rubbish last year?
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For comparison, the U.K. currently has an installed offshore wind generation of around 10GW. The U.K. has an average demand of 34GW and a peak demand of around 59GW.
Given that wind often has an average output on the North Sea of around 60%, this means that on average Offshore wind would be generating around 51GW. Enough to provide nearly all the UK’s electricity most of the time.
This 86GW figure includes newly announced fields to be auctioned, however. So we are still a fair ways off hitting this. Even if they speed up the planning processes with the onshore transformers.
Edit: Corrected it to 10GW of Offshore Wind generation. thanks for the spot r/Donaldbeag.
Credit where credit is due, the CfD regime and other policy decisions have propelled us into a great position. The biggest or most time consuming barrier is now Crown Estate leases and planning objections (cough NIMBYs cough).
We are doing an incredible job on renewables, we have gone from single digit %’s of renewables in our electricity mix, to 50%, in a decade, and we are pressing on. One of the few things that seem to be going well recently.
Awesome. Good news stories are so damned hard to find. Not only is UK moving forward at a right old clip, so is the world market, and now the UK will have expertise that’s in demand globally.
How much of this is due to increased capacity and how much to the fact that the wind was really rubbish last year?
An overview of how our energy is being generated – updated every 30 minutes:
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