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When wind and solar provide more than 55% of GB electricity, imports of power from other countries start to drop sharply. Below this level of renewables generation we usually see over 5 GW of electricity from interconnectors but when the level gets above 75% the volume is typically less than 1GW.
Not only will continued growth in renewables reduce av...
The first winter storm of 2025 has just passed over the UK, providing huge amounts of wind-generated electricity. This wasn’t the first time in recent weeks. From late July to late August 2025 we saw a consistent mixture of high winds and good sun across the UK. At the peak at about 11am on the 11th of September, these renewable sources provided more than 27.5 GW int...
The journalist Andrew Neil published an article on 27th August about offshore wind in the Daily Mail, a UK newspaper. The article contains a large number of factual inaccuracies. I have commented on these in 15 notes in the text below. These points are are embedded below and to the right of the relevant sentences in the Andrew Neil text which is now in a bold font.</...
We still hear assertions that adding renewables to the grid has increased the UK’s electricity costs. I looked at two sources of data and plotted one against the other to test whether there’s any truth in this.
1, The ‘next day’ electricity price for each hour in the period from 1st January 2025 to the early days of August 2025.[1] That’s about 220 day...
