{"id":350906,"date":"2024-11-12T07:48:15","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T06:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=350906"},"modified":"2024-11-12T07:48:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T06:48:17","slug":"dont-rely-on-solar-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=350906","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Rely On Solar\u00a0Power!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the dunkelflaute has already lasted a week, and appears to be carrying for another, as well as having little wind power, we have little solar power either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The days have been uniformly dull and grey until today, and at its peak on Saturday only hit 877 MW, only 4.9% of capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/www.solar.sheffield.ac.uk\/pvlive\/#<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Average output that day was just 164 MW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is the logic of spending billions of pounds on carpeting perfectly good farm land with solar panels which are no use at all in winter?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While the dunkelflaute has already lasted a week, and appears to be carrying for another, as well as having little wind power, we have little solar power either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":350911,"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":[691819405,691818412,691818267],"class_list":{"0":"post-350906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-dunkelflaute-or-dark-doldrums","9":"tag-solar-panels","10":"tag-solar-power","12":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/0RWE_Blog_Thema-Dunkelflaute_1340x590-1330x560-1.webp?fit=1330%2C560&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1thM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":377048,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=377048","url_meta":{"origin":350906,"position":0},"title":"Dunkelflautes: Germany versus\u00a0Belgium","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"02\/05\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Dunkelflaute = period in which total daily production of solar, and wind is less than 10% of its installed capacity","rel":"","context":"In \"Belgium\"","block_context":{"text":"Belgium","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=belgium"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/077353323-07cf-485c-95eb-21caaaf9d66d_1280x720.jpg?fit=1200%2C600&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/077353323-07cf-485c-95eb-21caaaf9d66d_1280x720.jpg?fit=1200%2C600&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/077353323-07cf-485c-95eb-21caaaf9d66d_1280x720.jpg?fit=1200%2C600&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/077353323-07cf-485c-95eb-21caaaf9d66d_1280x720.jpg?fit=1200%2C600&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/077353323-07cf-485c-95eb-21caaaf9d66d_1280x720.jpg?fit=1200%2C600&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":368211,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=368211","url_meta":{"origin":350906,"position":1},"title":"The German Dunkelflautes at the end of\u00a02024","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"01\/03\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The German Weather Service (Deutscher Wetterdienst) mentioned a\u00a0Dunkelflaute between November 2 and 7\u00a0(meaning 6 days), but I found other (less reliable) sources that also included November 8 (so 7 days). 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