{"id":252211,"date":"2023-04-10T18:30:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T16:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=252211"},"modified":"2023-04-10T20:36:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T18:36:19","slug":"damning-report-calls-for-major-national-grid-changes-to-prevent-uk-missing-key-wind-power-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=252211","title":{"rendered":"\u201aDamning\u2018 report calls for major National Grid changes to prevent UK missing key wind power targets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Tallbloke’s Talkshop<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

April 8, 2023 by oldbrew<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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49272934 – solar panels with wind turbines and electricity pylon at sunset. clean energy concept.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

More target mania. The way things are going, or not going, the climate-obsessed UK government won\u2019t be able to hurt the national economy with expensive and unreliable electricity as fast as planned.<\/em>
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With some offshore wind projects waiting years in the pipeline, a report commissioned by the government has called for an urgent upgrade to the UK\u2019s National Grid in order to reach the 2030 target of installing 50GW of wind power, says Sky News.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UK will miss a key target to install 50 gigawatts (GW) of wind power by the end of the decade unless major changes are made to the grid, according to a government-commissioned report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 50GW target is at the heart of the government\u2019s plans to phase out more polluting types of electricity generation by 2035, while also boosting energy security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tim Pick, who was appointed last year as an \u201coffshore wind champion\u201d to independently advise government and industry on the development of the UK\u2019s offshore wind sector, said installing 40GW of wind power by 2030 \u201cmay be achievable\u201d \u2013 but this falls short of the target.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sky News has previously reported that wind generators already make more electricity than the grid can handle because of a lack of cables to transmit electricity from the north to the south of the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This has resulted in British consumers paying hundreds of millions of pounds to turn wind power off, and gas generators on, closer to the source of demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The independent report warns this is one of the major limiting factors to industry progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full article here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More target mania. The way things are going, or not going, the climate-obsessed UK government won\u2019t be able to hurt the national economy with expensive and unreliable electricity as fast as planned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":252217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818247,691818249,691818248],"class_list":{"0":"post-252211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-national-grid","9":"tag-offshore-wind-sector","10":"tag-uk","12":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/00ges-res.webp?fit=1800%2C1201&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-13BV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":199487,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=199487","url_meta":{"origin":252211,"position":0},"title":"How UK\u2019s wind and solar expansion could lead to wasted electricity","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"12\/05\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"By lurching from feast to famine and back, surplus to deficit \u2014 depending on weather, time of day and variations in demand. 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