For All That Talk About Wind Energy, The Brits Are Up To 0.9% -- And Climbing -- February 17, 2015

For those following the wind industry, the big four are: a) the Danes or the Dutch (I always get them mixed up); b) the Germans; c) the Spanish (or was that solar? I always get solar and wind mixed up); and, d) the Brits.

We posted a story earlier that shows the Germans reaping less than 15% % of nameplate capacity from their wind farms. Maybe I was being a big hard on the Germans. Compared to the Brits, the Germans are doing great.

Last June, 2014, for the Brits:

For 56% of the month, wind was supplying less than 3% of the UK’s power, and this during a summer month when demand is low. Worse still, wind was generating less than 1% of the country’s needs for 11% of the time.

In terms of capacity, wind was working at less than 5% of its capacity for 28% of the month, and only got above 10% for 27% of the time, the equivalent of 8 days.

The lowest actual measurement was recorded on the 30th at 82MW, just 0.7% of capacity.

But things have improved, from 0.7% last summer, wind energy in Britain now accounts for 0.9% of all energy, on February 10, 2015:

It’s peak demand tonight in the UK, and wind is supplying just 0.9% of the country’s electricity.

Meanwhile, coal and gas are producing 68.4%.

0.9%. Wow.

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