Electricity - where is it from?

[Gadget]

I saw a link to an article by Ben Fogle talking about electric cars. In the article he states that, in this country, 40% of our electricity is from wind solar or renewables. Is this right?

 

[puppet]

97% in Scotland last year they say

 

[adam_farming]

GB Fuel type power generation production

GridWatch | Live statistic of UK National Electricity grid by type of generation | Solar PV power Generation | Coal Stations output in Gigawatts | Wind Output Gigawatts | Nuclear energy output |Biomass power generation Output

gridwatch.co.uk

Today: 28% renewable, 38% carbon neutral. I guess on a sunny windy day the % might be higher, on a cloudy still day it will be lower.

Interesting site to keep an eye on generally

 

[Doing it for the kids]

If it’s so high why do we have massive grid connection from Europe!?

its increasing all the time but we still need fossil fuels in the mid term to pick up the slack Which so many forget about.

 

[Kidds]

Did you just forget about nuclear?

 

[matthew]

How 'renewable' are turbine blades and solar panels? Decommissioning costs?? Are they recyclable?
A bit smoke and mirrors, to just take immediate output on one day, imo.

 

[chickens and wheat]

Maybe as the energy mix of producing energy gets more renewable,then the carbon footprint of producing renewables drops also.
Although i doubt the Chinese are using that thinking when they make most of the items.

Im doing my bit my solar is running the farm with some spare during the day. The biggest poultry shed is self supporting as the gshp and vent are running on solar,
The others sheds use wood pellets for heat

Not often we get April sun like this though, not since last year anyway

 

[puppet]

Maybe as the energy mix of producing energy gets more renewable,then the carbon footprint of producing renewables drops also.
Although i doubt the Chinese are using that thinking when they make most of the items.

Im doing my bit my solar is running the farm with some spare during the day. The biggest poultry shed is self supporting as the gshp and vent are running on solar,
The others sheds use wood pellets for heat

Not often we get April sun like this though, not since last year anyway

Well done for your foresight.
You can now award yourself a long-haul flight as reward just as the celebs do

 

[chickens and wheat]

My solar app says 6.2 long haul flights so far this year. I dont believe that

 

[renewablejohn]

I saw a link to an article by Ben Fogle talking about electric cars. In the article he states that, in this country, 40% of our electricity is from wind solar or renewables. Is this right?

Actually a bit low. Will be well over 50% this year.

 

[renewablejohn]

How 'renewable' are turbine blades and solar panels? Decommissioning costs?? Are they recyclable?
A bit smoke and mirrors, to just take immediate output on one day, imo.

Totally recyclable and they dont normally decomission but recommision with larger turbine heads on the same site.

 

[renewablejohn]

If it’s so high why do we have massive grid connection from Europe!?

its increasing all the time but we still need fossil fuels in the mid term to pick up the slack Which so many forget about.

Need somewhere to export our excess electric to. The more renewables installed the greater the need for exports.

 

[Exfarmer]

Need somewhere to export our excess electric to. The more renewables installed the greater the need for exports.

That is stretching the truth!
To say it is to get stabilisation thanks to renewables would be closer to the truth, but the reality is that the government is hoping to import more cheap power from sources that they do not want used here

 

[renewablejohn]

That is stretching the truth!
To say it is to get stabilisation thanks to renewables would be closer to the truth, but the reality is that the government is hoping to import more cheap power from sources that they do not want used here

Hardly stretching the truth. Already wind is capped to allow gas a base load. Pushing it through to the continent is an easy option until the UK storage capacity is increased. Problem is as more turbines are erected the capped time increases. Will not be a problem when the nuclear plants finally die as the gas plants can replace this nuclear base load and get rid of the cap.

 

[Exfarmer]

The cap is moreto do with surplus power in the wrong place. The generators are sited where power is needed with the National grid to level things up. However we have a huge surplus of wind in Scotland and thebgrid needs a major upgrade to link it into the North then central and southern England. This will take a long time as the Nimbys dont want it and the greens hate anything touching nature

 

[Ffermer Bach]

How 'renewable' are turbine blades and solar panels? Decommissioning costs?? Are they recyclable?
A bit smoke and mirrors, to just take immediate output on one day, imo.

add to that the imbedded carbon cost in the concrete, and the carbon that is released from the peat in the construction of the access roads to the windfarm

 

[Netherfield]

Yesterday and today I've seen 20 turbines, and not one turning, so calm at the moment.

 

[Kidds]

Yesterday and today I've seen 20 turbines, and not one turning, so calm at the moment.

It is Sunday and lockdown restrictions are eased. Everyone is out walking, cycling or shopping so don't need as much electric. They switched them off.

 

[matthew]

It is Sunday and lockdown restrictions are eased. Everyone is out walking, cycling or shopping so don't need as much electric. They switched them off.

Without wind, they don’t turn. And down here, there’s no wind at all. In fact for a few days now it’s been unusually quiet.

 

[renewablejohn]

Without wind, they don’t turn. And down here, there’s no wind at all. In fact for a few days now it’s been unusually quiet.

At the moment 25% of electric is coming from solar according to gridwatch.