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by Arushi Madan | 04-12-2018 05:46
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Storm Diana across the UK brought travel chaos to road, rail and airports, but the clouds did have a silver lining: the strong winds helped set a renewable energy record. Windfarms supplied about a third of the UK’s electricity between 6pm and 6.30pm on Wednesday (28th Nov), a time of peak energy demand. Output hit a high of 14.9GW, beating a previous record of 14.5GW. The milestone coincides with the official opening on Friday of E.ON’s Rampion windfarm off the coast near Brighton, which is the first in the Channel and can power about 350,000 homes. Blustery weather has buoyed wind output in the past few days, with National Grid reporting thousands of wind turbines were the UK’s No 1 source of power across Wednesday and Thursday, at about 32% of generation. Gas power stations are usually top. Windfarms have moved from a niche source of electricity generation a decade ago – when they supplied less than 2% – to a cornerstone of Britain’s power mix, at nearly 15% of supply last year. The 400MW Rampion project is one of four big offshore windfarms to come online this year, along with a 92MW windfarm in Aberdeen Bay, a 353MW windfarm off the Suffolk coast and a 659MW windfarm off Cumbria, which is the world’s biggest. More vast schemes are in the wings, with a 588MW windfarm in the Moray Firth due to become fully operational next year. The title of world’s largest windfarm will be taken by a 1,218MW project off east Yorkshire a year later. Isn’t it great to see British wind power setting new records at one of the coldest, darkest, wettest times of the year? Source: The Guardian newspaper, UK. |
 
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6 Comments
Hello Arushi, turning into the new type of energy as main energy source is time-consuming task but future generation definitely needs this as we are facing the end of fossil fuel era. I saw the long term plan of Britain for main energy source and I do remember LNG, nuclear powerplant, coal to be 'remaining' successively for 20 years. However, without relying on perishable energy types, such trials and efforts look nice to take future generation into account :)
Thanks for sharing a news about British energy change!
Posted 08-12-2018 16:39
Hello Arushi
The successful transition to renewable resources from our fossil fuel generated energy will definitely be a breakthrough to a new greener era.
Glad to hear that UK is concentrating on renewable energy.
Hope these news could be heard from other regions too!
Thanks for the report :)
Posted 06-12-2018 19:16
Glad to hear UK making maximum utilization of the renewable resources. I had previously read your report about how solar energy has been used also. Thank you for letting us know how is the trend of energy production and utilization there.
For the sustainable future, we must make maximum utilization of the renewable resources and rational use of non renewable resources.
Posted 05-12-2018 01:03
Hi Arushi,
Wind power is a very good alternative to power generation. And it's good to hear that as a leading nation, U.K is really making use of wind power.
Thanks for the report.
Posted 04-12-2018 18:02
Hi Arushi!
I trust you are well. It's great to see The UK setting goals to push renewable energy forward! Moreover, that you guys are moving away form conventional energy sourcing.
Thank you so much for your report!
Yours sincerely
R.
Posted 04-12-2018 15:50
Hello Arushi Madan, Namaste
This is really a great news, in this world full of fuel energy such news make me happy, we always should go for wind,water and solar energy.
Keep writing
Thank You for the report.
Posted 04-12-2018 14:07