On 01/03/18 10:30, Robin wrote:
On 01/03/2018 10:11, The Other Mike wrote:


Without the wind generation we'd have been a long way up that iced
over creek
called **** for most of this week.


If we didn't have wind generation the vast sums spent subsidising it
could have been spent on other sources - preferably ones which are not
intermittent.


Exactly.

I think there's about 15GW of wind capacity in all.

at a MINIMUM thats cost £30bn

Thats a couple of Hinkley points at 6.4GW solid output. That will last
40 years

2017 average wind output?


mysql select avg(wind) from day where timestamp like '2017%';
+--------------------+
| avg(wind) |
+--------------------+
| 3689.9103407565385 |
+--------------------+

Wind averages about 3.6GW

And turbines are scrap in 12-15 years




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