{"id":291058,"date":"2023-12-13T07:08:15","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T06:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=291058"},"modified":"2023-12-13T07:08:17","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T06:08:17","slug":"deluded-over-wind-and-solar-security-euan-mearns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=291058","title":{"rendered":"Deluded Over Wind and Solar Security\u2013Euan Mearns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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UK climate crisis and electricity grid status Saturday 2<\/strong>nd<\/strong><\/sup> December 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sir, I imagine many P&J readers will be wearing woolly hats and jumpers, huddled around a candle trying to keep warm. It is very cold, calm and dark outside. Ideal conditions for excess winter deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 2 December I made a couple of spot checks on UK electricity supply and demand at 13:30 and 16:50. At 13:30 demand was 40 GW. The UK has 29 GW of installed wind capacity and 15 GW of installed solar PV giving a total for variable renewable energy of 44 GW, enough to cover all demand when it is windy and sunny. At 13:30 on Saturday, combined wind and solar were providing only 9.4% of demand and by 16:50 that had dropped to 3.8% of demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At 16:50, gas provided 56.1%, nuclear 11.4% and imports 14.3%. Those who claim wind and solar provide energy security are clearly deluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Euan Mearns PhD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sir, I imagine many P&J readers will be wearing woolly hats and jumpers, huddled around a candle trying to keep warm. It is very cold, calm and dark outside. Ideal conditions for excess winter deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":291062,"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":"Sir, I imagine many P&J readers will be wearing woolly hats and jumpers, huddled around a candle trying to keep warm. 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