Wind Power Disappears in Germany and UK

From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

As we know, there was not much wind about last week. In particular, between Nov 1st and 7th wind supplied only 7% of power in Britain:

We relied heavily on imports, which averaged 18% of total supply. But winds were also light across Germany and the Low Countries. Could we rely on getting electricity from Europe when they too have shut most of their fossil fuel plants down?

During that same period, wind power in Germany dropped to dangerously low levels. On the 6th, for example, wind was supplying just 1% of Germany’s electricity, as low as 1 GW. The country has about 70 GW of wind power capacity, which means that on most days that week, wind was running at less than 1% of capacity.

We can forget about solar power in Germany or elsewhere in Europe, as they are not going to store it for us to use in early evening. And as the chart shows, Germany was getting most of its power from coal and gas during that week.

Other countries like Belgium, Holland and Denmark will have experienced similar issues with wind power.

Even if we, Germany and the others triple wind capacity, it would make little difference. Three times nothing is still nothing.

And we cannot all rely on nuclear power from France and hydro from Norway – there is simply not enough to go round.

Meanwhile the blind carry on leading the blind!