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a £100bn programme to build thousands of offshore wind turbines that could power most of Britain's households during strong winds

What are we speaking of, that is in terms of MW-s of generating capacity and TWh-s of expected annual generated electricity?

If we are here: can anyone dig up figures on total wind power generation (TWh) in the UK in 2009?

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Tue Jan 5th, 2010 at 10:55:44 AM EST
it'll be in here

Digest of United Kingdom energy statistics (DUKES) - Department of Energy and Climate Change

he Digest, sometimes known as DUKES, is an essential source of energy information. It contains:

  • extensive tables, charts and commentary
  • separate sections on coal, petroleum, gas, electricity, combined heat and power and renewables
  • a comprehensive picture of energy production and use over the last five years, with key series taken back to 1970.


Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue Jan 5th, 2010 at 11:07:14 AM EST
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well initial back of an envelope calculation that might be entirely wrong says 20.7 TWh

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue Jan 5th, 2010 at 11:11:36 AM EST
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Hm? You must use a very high capacity factor.

I just started into reading your link; there's a graph saying "Wind & wave" was at 7.1 TWh in 2008.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Tue Jan 5th, 2010 at 11:56:03 AM EST
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More precise figures for wind only later: 4.236 TWh in 2006, 5.288 TWh in 2007, 7.114 TWh in 2008. That was 1.5 resp. 1.9% of supply.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Tue Jan 5th, 2010 at 12:14:29 PM EST
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Had a quick flick, saw that wind was 5.5% of renewables, and renewables were 10.3% of supply, created total in TWh from claimed output of nuclear stations which they claim to be 13%  of the total of UK the UKs nuclear sector might have been overstating their output.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue Jan 5th, 2010 at 12:30:06 PM EST
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is usually meant to include only residential electricity consumption, it's NOT overall consumption per capita.

It's a marketing gimmick of the wind industry, fairly widely used.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue Jan 5th, 2010 at 12:47:51 PM EST
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Still, it's a relevant statistic. Useful for comparing countries with different kind of economies, industry-heavy and not.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Tue Jan 5th, 2010 at 01:45:10 PM EST
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