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UK total wind generation record beaten today

57 points| martinald | 7 days ago |renewables-map.robinhawkes.com | reply

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[+] robhawkes|7 days ago|reply
Oh cool, that's my website! Let me know if you have any questions about it and I'll do my best to answer them.
[+] countrymile|7 days ago|reply
Great website! Can you describe the potential output? There is a little i sign but I can't click it on Firefox mobile.
[+] mcrmonkey|6 days ago|reply
Excellent Site!

What are the lines that cross Scotland ? At time of writing they are red where as other lines further south are green.

I know of some on shore wind up near the Rochdale area too. Does it mean they are offline if they just appear as black dots on the map?

[+] nhecker|7 days ago|reply
(edit: I see you answered a sibling comment with the same question. TL;DR: Potential output is the output pretending that curtailment did not apply. Thanks!)

A UI or terminology question: when 'Potential output' says it is 'Including curtailment', does this mean that it pretends that curtailment doesn't apply, or that it subtracts the curtailed power from the total available so that the total power shown is only the power actually transmitted (exported) to the grid? It's very likely that I'm just not familiar enough with the terms, but this wasn't immediately clear. My guess is the former meaning, although I can imagine it meaning either.

Regardless, this is incredibly neat, and I'd love to see this kind of data for the grid that serves me (Eastern Interconnect in the US) -- are you aware of any sites similar?

[+] nasretdinov|7 days ago|reply
I must say it was quite windy for the last couple of days. When I say "quite windy" I mean I saw people saying they were blown off their bike :)
[+] acheong08|6 days ago|reply
Not surprised either. I'm down in Wales & I could hear the glass pane shaking
[+] turkeywelder|7 days ago|reply
Love your stuff Robin. The graphs and wind turbine model are particular favourites

How can we fix the curtailment problem? Storage nearer the turbines or just more transmission capacity generally? I presume we'd saturate storage pretty quickly so is it just a case of running more grid wiring from Scotland to say.. Manchester?

[+] robhawkes|7 days ago|reply
Thanks! The ultimate fix is to finish upgrading the aging grid. There are other things that can improve the situation however, such as building wind farms away from these constraints, storage (but these can sometimes exacerbate constraints), demand flexibility (eg. place demand above constraints), zonal/regional pricing, and probably more I can't remember off the top of my head.

The demand flexibility aspect is already being explored: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-to-make-plug-i...

[+] gotwaz|7 days ago|reply
Some context would make it more interesting. How much of it was used? How much does wind contribute to full day consumption?
[+] toomuchtodo|7 days ago|reply
Not to steal from Robin's excellent work, you can see how much it's been (low carbon/renewables generation) over the last twelve months at https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/GB/12mo/monthly (~56% renewables, ~73% low carbon)

(Robin, if there is a way to see this on your site, I could not find it, my apologies!)

[+] wiredfool|7 days ago|reply
In Ireland, we’re running at about 75% renewables for the day, with most of that being wind. The absolute numbers are smaller, but that’s a peak of about 500 MW of solar and 3.6GW of wind, against something like 5-6Gw of demand.
[+] plodman|7 days ago|reply
And yet we’re about to face an eye watering increase in bills due to the way we’re charged for energy.
[+] Sarkie|7 days ago|reply
Congrats Robin.
[+] robhawkes|7 days ago|reply
Thanks! Always a surprise and a pleasure seeing my stuff on here