What effect does this have on people’s electricity bills, has the development costs of wind energy taken all the benefits to the consumer.
Cost of power relates to the highest dispatch price (could be average hourly dispatch price???) which for a recent few months was gas (thanks Putin).
Wind was subsidized for years to make it compete with gas, oil and the limited on and off coal (Moneypoint). Now is a cash cow thanks to data centres taking the base load and hence why being subjected to a levy to support dispatch prices for gas (mainly) to reduce the overall per KW consumer price.
Going to get really interesting when the first 2.5GW offshore kicks in and we hit 75-80% average wind, even during summer. We’ve a power station equivalent load of battery now on the system (630mw) Ireland already to smooth out the curve and more coming. Ireland presently has second highest wind input globally as grid % (kicked up to 83% last week at a point in time) so strategy (wind drought depending) is to have wind based dispatch for most of the year, base load covered by gas and export and import to reduce overall tariff.
Now, if that could actually affect what I am paying, that would be nice
Question though, that’s generated. What about % that was used?
We tend to generate a lot at night time & during storms. In a lot of cases there’s an excess at the time. So some is wasted
As a side point, I believe networks have bought batteries to store some of the excess generation when the can.
Roll on the decoupling of renewables from carbon pricing.
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2020 was better.
That wind is getting dam expensive
What effect does this have on people’s electricity bills, has the development costs of wind energy taken all the benefits to the consumer.
Cost of power relates to the highest dispatch price (could be average hourly dispatch price???) which for a recent few months was gas (thanks Putin).
Wind was subsidized for years to make it compete with gas, oil and the limited on and off coal (Moneypoint). Now is a cash cow thanks to data centres taking the base load and hence why being subjected to a levy to support dispatch prices for gas (mainly) to reduce the overall per KW consumer price.
Going to get really interesting when the first 2.5GW offshore kicks in and we hit 75-80% average wind, even during summer. We’ve a power station equivalent load of battery now on the system (630mw) Ireland already to smooth out the curve and more coming. Ireland presently has second highest wind input globally as grid % (kicked up to 83% last week at a point in time) so strategy (wind drought depending) is to have wind based dispatch for most of the year, base load covered by gas and export and import to reduce overall tariff.
Now, if that could actually affect what I am paying, that would be nice
Question though, that’s generated. What about % that was used?
We tend to generate a lot at night time & during storms. In a lot of cases there’s an excess at the time. So some is wasted
As a side point, I believe networks have bought batteries to store some of the excess generation when the can.
Roll on the decoupling of renewables from carbon pricing.