On Mar 6, 7:26*pm, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
The windfarm proponents will counter this by saying that that is fine,
because when its flat calm in Feltham, its a gale in Galashiels..

And skip the most fundamental points: that a gale in Galashiels is all
very well, but the power needs to get down to Feltham.

Why?

The grid is already designed to cope with local outages in generating
capacity. there's no need for wholesale upgrade.

We all accept that if Wind Power is used there needs to be plenty of
backup capacity in the system.

The power from Galashiels is used locally. Feltham gets its power from
somewhere, but certainly not all the way from Galashiels.

It's the same principle that you can buy your electricity from any of
a number of suppliers but the power you actually use is always
generated "locally".

MBQ