December 11, 2012

alt.energy in England

A nice online web page for England's power grid. At this moment:
44.45 GW demand
21.75 GW from Coal
7.79 GW from Nuclear
12.87 GW from Gas Turbine
0.30 GW from wind
The gas turbines are the 'hot standby' used to cover the demand when the wind doesn't blow. Building a wind generator is only half of the picture, you also have to build a gas turbine power plant to cover the baseload. Very expensive -- you have to install two infrastructures to cover one feel-good generator. Posted by DaveH at December 11, 2012 2:15 PM
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