If you were watching the first of Daybreak on ITV on Monday, then there’s a chance your TV was being powered by wind, or more correctly ‘electricity generated by wind turbines connected to the GB power transmission system’ – wind – because at 8.30pm on Monday, September 6, the record for wind powered leccy entering the National Grid was set. We were pretty blown away.
According to the National Grid, the record of 1860MW of electricity was being generated from wind turbines – largely from Scotland – accounting for 4.7 per cent of total generation at the time.
And over the 24 hours for the day between midnight and midnight, wind generated 5 per cent of all electricity – 40.5GWh out of a total 809.5GWh.
Independent windy millers West Coast Power, based in Wales but bothering to get in touch, were chuffed.
Development manager Richard Fearnall said: “This is encouraging news – it puts to bed the myth that wind power is not a vital part of the mix in achieving energy security and meeting our renewable targets.
“Let’s hope that the landowners, potential neighbours of new schemes and, in particular, local planning authorities are the ones who are most encouraged by the news and that they will actively help the UK towards our legally-binding 2020 target of generating 15 per cent of our energy from renewable resources, much of which will be wind generated.
“We foresee that wind energy will be increasingly generated from small and medium sized installations after the extra support for this scale of project was introduced through the Feed-in tariff.”
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