Windy-day power

Bishop Hill
"A reader asked how the windfarms did yesterday in the UK - we caught the tail end of a hurricane so there was plenty of puff around.

The answer is, not desperately well, but well enough that one can almost feel the money being sucked out of one's pockets: "
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From the comments:

Two academics speak out on Scotland's renewables delusion -

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/SNP-warned-of-39white-elephant39.6835373.jp

Here's the link to live grid data from NETA -

http://www.bmreports.com/bsp/bsp.php#generation_by_fuel_type_table

and an interactive graph of the data which permits restrospective analysis -

http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/~dcurtis/NETA.html

Wind is actually generating more than 2GW just now - still only a fraction of gas, coal & nuclear though.