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    I parchi eolici scozzesi hanno pagato non per generare quasi il 40% della potenziale elettricità

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    1. Nukes-For-Nimbys on

      Wind just gets to externalise it’s intermittency. It’s a ridiculous situation.

    2. callsignhotdog on

      There’s a timeline where we nationalised the North Sea oil and gas, used those profits to invest back into future renewables, built the windfarms ourselves and then when they were producing more energy than was needed we could just turn them off for a while without having to compensate any shareholders.

    3. Fellowes321 on

      There’s the grid and there’s the generation. One is ahead of the other in terms of upgrading so the generated power is unused.

      There are plans to upgrade the grid to make use of the power.

      This is the story.

      (£1.5b is being spent on the grid upgrade which takes longer than building a wind farm)

    4. Euclid_Interloper on

      Wasn’t there a plan to build interconnectors to Norway to feed wind power into pumped storage in Scandinavia? Is that still the plan?

    6. LurkingUnderThatRock on

      My idea to solve stuff like this is to do load balancing rather than supply balancing.

      Increase base load production capacity then build fast reacting loads very close to the supplies. Think electrolysis, compression, smelting… so we overproduce but consume it to balance loads.

      Advantages to this are that we can simultaneously increase our clean energy production, reduce our reliance on storage, increase our industrial output and we don’t end up in these kind of situations. Hopefully it also means we don’t need gas peaker plants to cope with variation in demand as we can instead do load balancing. It won’t remove the need for storage for base load.

      I’m sure I’m missing something here but it seems like a reasonable plan.

    7. RoutineCloud5993 on

      We need infrastructure to store all that energy so that it doesn’t go to waste. No storage is 100% effective, but something is better than nothing. Battery farms, hydrogen generation, ammonia if that makes it easier to store.

      We already do sell excess energy to Europe, including North Sea energy to Norway where it’s used to pump water back uphill where it’s stored as future hydro energy.

    8. jtrimm98 on

      Shows how little we need old methods like oil and gas. We just need investment in the grid and in storage

    9. shrunkenshrubbery on

      IMHO there is a great business opportunity for battery farms to absorb this additional capacity at great prices.

    10. adm010 on

      Hmm, if there was only a zero CO2
      Option that created masses of power in a small footprint that worked consistently 24/7/365 as base load

    11. SevenNites on

      FT and The Economist have dropped their dogmatic defense of net zero, the tide is turning.

      https://archive.ph/PZTO3

      These headlines wouldn’t be possible in 2020, the truth is high energy prices is killing the UK industry it hit the manufacturing sector first like chemical sector its output is down over 35% in the last 3 years, it’s now feeding through to the service industry which these papers care more about.

      You can’t run away from the reality forever of UK having the highest industrial energy in the world and 3rd highest domestic energy prices in Europe only behind Denmark and Germany who also went all in on wind energy.

    12. Askingquestions2027 on

      So the conservatives had 14 years to upgrade the grid, instead they just wasted our money.

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