British wind disaster......the green cult will not learn...

[2aguy]

The results of the wind experiment in Britain are in and it is a disaster.......but the green cult simply doesn't care.....limited, expensive, unreliable energy is a feature, not a bug to the green cultists...

It seems what wind power the British government has built has added to the problem, and the planned wind farms are going to exacerbate it horrifically.

…As an example, the offshore wind farms Hornsea Two and Moray East were completed in 2022 with capital costs of £2.77 billion per GW and £2.75bn/GW, more than four times the cost of CCGT capacity. They’re expensive to maintain, which is not surprising since offshore windfarms have all their many generators mounted at the top of 200-metre tall masts far away from land. Estimates of maintenance costs are as high as £200m per GW installed, per annum. The nominal cost of offshore wind generation is £170/MWh – noticeably higher than that for CCGTs, even in these dire times of high gas prices.
The other factor to bear in mind is that not only is wind capacity extremely expensive to build, wind farms do not deliver anything like their rated capacity over time. This is bad news for the customer, because the higher the capacity factor – that is, the higher the percentage of the rated capacity the powerplant actually delivers over time – the cheaper the energy. In 2022 the UK’s onshore and offshore windfarms operated with a capacity factor of 33 per cent. In 2021 it was only 29 per cent.
It gets worse. Like most other renewable generation technologies, wind power is unpredictably intermittent and highly variable. Also, since wind turbines are not synchronously connected to the grid, they provide no “grid inertia” – more on that shortly. Wind turbines cannot be asked to deliver energy when it is required, and their output changes rapidly. These failings must be mitigated and costed, and users have to pay for these costs on top of the price of the electricity.

What happens when all those Gigawatts are installed and the wind drops to zero? The U.K. is the poster child (I have to say Germany is a close second.).

…The world has been sold a faulty bill of goods, based on a pathetically simplistic vision of how renewable energy works. A US government website highlights the problem with this example: “The mean turbine capacity in the U.S. Wind Turbine Database is 1.67 megawatts (MW), At a 33% capacity factor, that average turbine would generate over 402,000 kWh per month – enough for over 460 average U.S. homes.”

'Tis to laugh: Starry-eyed optimists think U.S. will notice British wind energy DISASTER

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Spain also had a green energy disaster.

Spain Is a Case Study in How Not to Foster Renewables​

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/sp…
May 5, 2017 · Spain Is a Case Study in How Not to Foster Renewables. Spain’s green energy lobby says government actions show a lack of planning that’s disincentivizing developers. Jason Deign May 05, 2017 ...