evenglow

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK wind farms generate a record 22.7 GW of power on a single day⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Plenty of other examples are already up and running. Doesn’t take that much money to ask how they already solved the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK wind farms generate a record 22.7 GW of power on a single day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  octopus.energy/…/as-wasted-wind-is-set-to-hit-650…

  Wind curtailment in the UK has cost consumers over £1 billion so far in 2025, primarily due to payments made to wind farms to stop generating electricity when the grid cannot handle the supply. This issue is expected to escalate, potentially reaching £8 billion annually by 2030, as the infrastructure struggles to keep up with renewable energy production.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK wind farms generate a record 22.7 GW of power on a single day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Much more interesting is what UK doesn’t do with that power. Someone should post that article about curtailment problems and how that jacks up people’s power bills.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why China Built 162 Square Miles of Solar Panels on the World’s Highest Plateau⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  At the same time, cheap electricity enables China to manufacture even more solar panels

  Neat concept.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Revival’ Interrupted: World Nuclear Industry Won’t Sustain 2024 Growth, Struggles for Relevance as Renewables Surge⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of the nuclear growth is in China, the WNISR data show, where capacity grew by 3.5 gigawatts in 2024 while solar added 278 GW. “Between 2005 and 2024, there were 104 startups and 101 closures,” the report states. “Of these, 51 startups and none of the closures were in China. Thus, outside China, there has been a net decline by 48 units over the same period.”

  Outside China, the report states, “nuclear generation in 2024 remained 363 TWh below the 2006 level, an almost 14% plunge.”

  China is the only country with two SMR designs in operation or built, and limited operational data available. Elsewhere, they “remain largely aspirational, as despite rising public and private funding, no Western SMR construction has begun,”

  Chinese and Russian governments accounted for 44 of 45 of the world’s reactor construction starts between January 2020 and mid-2025, the WNISR states. China accounted for seven of the nine construction starts in 2024.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we afford to be afraid of nuclear power?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Look what China has been up to with nuclear power plants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK’s wasted wind power laid bare by new Octopus tracking tool⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In China for years if large grid scale wind or solar was installed energy storage was required. Something about wind not always blowing or night time if I remember correctly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US‘s wind and solar will generate more power than coal in 2024⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But the US energy demand saw an increase of nearly 3 percent, which is roughly double the amount of additional solar generation. Should electric use continue to grow at a similar pace, renewable production will have to continue to grow dramatically for a few years before it can simply cover the added demand.