Category Archives: renewables

UK Peak Power 2022/23

Posted on February 20, 2023 by Clive Best

I have been monitoring  the power generation for the UK National Grid since 2000. Here is an update covering the period between November 2022 until February 20th 2023. Note that I have also generously corrected for wind power by factoring … Continue reading →

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Wind Lulls

Posted on March 30, 2022 by Clive Best

The installed capacity of  UK Wind farms is currently 25GW.  The business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng proposes to at least double that number, but there is a basic problem which seemingly everyone overlooks – Wind Lulls. Sometimes high pressure sits over … Continue reading →

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Steven Koonin v Andrew Desler

Posted on February 19, 2022 by Clive Best

I have just read the book “Unsettled” by Steven Koonin a Caltech Physicist who has a long academic, industrial and political career. Of course he agrees that CO2 emissions have a warming effect, but he argues that many of the … Continue reading →

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