Latest version – feel free to comment or edit – strangely, has a large number of refrences from the claverton site. Jump to: navigation, search Erie Shores Wind Farm monthly output over a two year period An intermittent energy source is a source of electric power generation that may be uncontrollably variable or more intermittent than […]
Read MoreCorrespondence received from CSP / Trec regarding " Proposed presentation of benefits and costs of European Supergrid by Dr Gregor Czisch"
Proposed presentation of benefits and costs of European Supergrid by Dr Gregor Czisch Dear Dave, Thanks very much for sending this correspondence. A couple of points about CSP and wind power: Wind power has been supported for much longer than CSP and is much further down its cost-reduction curve than CSP. The TRANS-CSP report from […]
Read MoreDay One -20th May – of the forthcoming All Energy conference in Aberdeen
www.all-energy.co.uk re the Grid, the second one being the one I’ve put together re the Legal and Financial Infrastructure. I have Aily Armour-Biggs (a Clavertonite) chairing it, plus a Scottish Government speaker, Mike McElhinney, and a lawyer from Talisman Energy, Jacquelynn Craw, who is very familiar with the North Sea MasterDeed legal infrastructure
Read MoreIs Wind Power Reliable? Capacity Credit of Wind Energy
Is Wind Power Reliable The following is a commentary on David Milborrow’s article in “New Power UK/Issue 1/February 2009”. As David says, you would not design a thermal power generating system which did not have built in reserve. He has answered his comment about those letter writers being unconcerned (or unaware) that there […]
Read MoreNuclear and Wind are Officially Stated to be Incompatible
This statement , from E.ON and EDF was in the financial pages of the Guardian on 16th March 2009. Fred Starr and Dave Andrews put in a briefing note to this effect in the Inst of Civil Engineers Journal ” Energy” last year. But we also pointed out that nuclear cannot exist without back up from fossil, and because […]
Read MoreUK Windless Days – Fact or Fiction
offshore wind Conference £60 for the registration fee?at the University of Birmingham on August 28th
Dear Claverton People, Do you want to know more about offshore wind but would like to go to a Conference where you don’t have to pay £1000 for the registration fee? Well come along to the University of Birmingham on August 28th which has a registration fee of just £60 and also a range of […]
Read MoreDepressing but probably true comment on rate of growth of renewable energies in Wikipedia
From wikiepedia article on wind power: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wind_power Fastest growing energy source The statement that wind power is the world’s fastest growing energy source needs to be qualified. It may be correct in terms of greatest added capacity, if China has stopped building a new coal power plant a week, or two, but it is not […]
Read MoreWikipedia article on estimating costs of transmission upgrade to deal with renewables
Below is an extract from the excellent Wikipedia’s article on National Grid which references Bernard Quigg’s paper at the last Claverton Conference. Can anyone help on this – it seems to me that the Costs of Transmission derived from Bernard’s’ paper are too high when compared to the method derived from Triad charges, Is this […]
Read MoreIs wind power reliable? – An authoritative article from David Millborrow who is technically experienced and numerate, unlike many other commentators
The UK has committed itself to a very ambitious target to increase its wind powered generation
capacity by 2020. The EC’s 15% renewable energy target implies that renewable electricity,
much of its wind power, will have to provide between 35-40% of electricity supplies. This has
caused concerns in some quarters that the UK ‘s security of supply will be placed in jeopardy.
However, others say this concern is overplayed. In the following article, David Milborrow*
debunks myths surrounding wind power’s reliability.
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