Robin Kirkpatrick AFNI MIoD’s Post

Here's how wind generation looked at the time of the new 22,523MW record at 0330 yesterday morning… Amazing to see the record beaten by nearly 300MW in just a few days, but not amazing to see so many curtailed (purple) wind farms in Scotland. We would have seen a 25,000MW record with less curtailment… The second image shows a view of the record but only showing wind farms which were being actively curtailed (turned down or off) at the time. Notice they're all in Scotland? That's because we couldn't get power through a bottleneck (red lines on the purple map) in the transmission system (grid) between Scotland & England. But wind farms turn off when it's not windy right? Sure they do. But in this case we still needed the power, and it was windy enough to generate it, we just couldn't move it. It means we paid the wind farms to turn off, and then paid gas generators (even more money) to turn on in the south. So what can we do about it? Upgrading the transmission system is an obvious starting point, as is more storage. Locational pricing is another option, making energy cheaper due to renewables. Read more: - NESO 2030: https://lnkd.in/gDNfFiG8 - Loc. pricing: https://lnkd.in/gsV542Xa And if you want to explore the wind energy maps yourself then you can find them on my website: 🗺️ https://lnkd.in/eK-T6bH6 Curtailment data is from Wasted Wind: https://lnkd.in/ecfDYG2N