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Written by Kate Morley on 2024-12-18 at 11:55

British wind turbines averaged a record 22.54GW of power generation between 3:30am and 4:00am this morning, satisfying 84% of our needs at the time.

Additionally, energy exports exceeded gas-fired power generation between 11:30pm last night and 6:00am this morning.

Live data can be seen on my site at https://grid.iamkate.com.

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Written by Paul on 2024-12-18 at 12:38

@kate after the recent storm was a reminder of how useful more energy storage would be, massive amounts of wind but then a lull for a few days after storm goes through where the energy was really expensive. Energy storage would have smooth this out.

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Written by Kumar McMillan on 2024-12-18 at 13:09

@kate @agvbergin I’m guessing that’s mostly Shetland 😂 https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/viking-wind-farm-shetland-islands/

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Written by Stuart McHattie 👨🏼‍💻 on 2024-12-18 at 22:10

@kate do you happen to know what the theoretical maximum output of all our wind farms are? I expect it’s a lot higher than the records we’ve had recently, but we don’t usually get many turbines at full output.

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Written by Kate Morley on 2024-12-18 at 22:43

@sdjmchattie The current operational capacity of wind power in Britain is just over 30GW: https://www.renewableuk.com/energypulse/ukwed/

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