Record Wind in Scotland Means Grid Tells Some Turbines to Stop

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North Sea Dogger Bank Wind Farm, UK

Bloomberg.com
By Will Mathis, Rachel Morison, and Todd Gillespie
May 25, 2022

Wind farms across the UK are producing more electricity than the grid is able to cope with, forcing the network operator to ask some turbines in Scotland to shut down.

National Grid Plc asked some wind farms connected to the local network in the west of Scotland to reduce output by 25 megawatts. While that’s a tiny fraction of the record amount of wind supplies being produced by blustery weather spinning turbines across the country, it highlights the difficulties of a network still unable to store large amounts of electricity.

Britain has bet big on renewable power to curb carbon emissions, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson describing the UK as the Saudi Arabia of wind. But that has also left the country at the mercy of weather, and made it harder for grids to cope without the ability to store large amounts of electricity in batteries or use it to produce green hydrogen.

Wind power peaked at 19,835 megawatts on Wednesday, enough to cover more than half of Britain’s electricity needs. Production surpassed a peak set in late January and follows record renewables output seen recently in other parts of Europe, highlighting the potential for green energy to replace expensive fossil fuels...>
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-25/uk-wind-power-sets-record-on-gusty-weather

If only someone had an idea of how to store excess renewable energy...

(another silly video! What good are they...)