Wind power fails

Storm Hector brought an end to 14 days of low wind conditions across the whole of the UK. A website called elexonportal gives data at 30-minute intervals for the output of all metered UK wind farms. The maximum theoretical capacity of all these wind farms is 11,836 MW (megawatts).

This data reveals the colossal failure of the “renewables” part of our energy system during the night of 2 June. At 9pm, when solar energy dwindled, the total output of all metered wind farms was a lowly 382 MW. Overnight, this crashed to an astonishing 48 MW by 10.30am next day.

Bear in mind that wind turbines which are not generating consume electricity from the grid to keep their systems operating. The total being consumed probably exceeded this 48 MW.

The consequences of these events in a 100 per cent renewable energy system wouldn’t just be that people couldn’t heat their homes or recharge electric cars, companies need energy to function, so jobs would be threatened.

GEOFF MOORE Braeface Park, Alness