{"id":388697,"date":"2025-07-14T11:38:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T09:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=388697"},"modified":"2025-07-14T11:39:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T09:39:01","slug":"telegraph-discovers-wind-farms-dont-work-when-the-wind-does-not-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=388697","title":{"rendered":"Telegraph Discovers Wind Farms Don\u2019t Work When The Wind Does Not\u00a0Blow!"},"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

h\/t Ian Magness<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Telegraph finally work out that the wind does not blow all the time!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A surge of windless heatwaves hitting Britain<\/em><\/a> this summer is wreaking havoc on electricity markets and driving up bills for consumers, according to energy experts.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The industry is already familiar with \u201cdunkelflautes\u201d \u2013 <\/em>the increasingly common spells of freezing windless winter weather<\/em><\/a> when wind and solar farm output plummets. Now it is reporting a similar \u201chitzeflaute\u201d phenomenon in summer, with longer spells of warm windless weather also becoming more prevalent with climate change.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hitzeflaute comes from hitze \u2013 the German word for heat \u2013 and flaute, which means lull, reflecting the absence of strong winds in such spells.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It means Europe and the UK are becoming increasingly dependent on solar power during the day but, in the absence of wind, having to ramp up gas, coal and nuclear power stations in the evening.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The phenomenon also causes massive market swings with power prices often going negative in daytime when solar is peaking, but surging up to \u00a3200 or \u00a3300 per megawatt hour when the sun goes down, especially if wind output is low.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UK faces just such a spell this weekend, with a high pressure weather system bringing clear skies, sunshine and low winds that will coincide with the Wimbledon tennis finals.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full story here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, it\u2019s all the fault of climate change, not the ludicrous obsession with wind farms that don\u2019t generate enough half the time and generate too much the rest!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Telegraph finally work out that the wind does not blow all the time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[691836586,691824443,691821240,691818808,691830969],"class_list":["post-388697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hitzeflaute","tag-electricity-bills","tag-heatwave","tag-met-office","tag-uk-weather","has-post-thumbnail","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1D7j","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":253391,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=253391","url_meta":{"origin":388697,"position":0},"title":"Report: Seabird numbers decrease by 90% near offshore wind farms","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"04\/17\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"A new study by German scientists has found that diving seabird numbers decreased by an alarming 90 percent near offshore wind turbine installations.","rel":"","context":"In \"climate activists\"","block_context":{"text":"climate activists","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=climate-activists"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0offshore-wind-farm-birds.webp?fit=1200%2C795&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0offshore-wind-farm-birds.webp?fit=1200%2C795&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0offshore-wind-farm-birds.webp?fit=1200%2C795&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0offshore-wind-farm-birds.webp?fit=1200%2C795&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0offshore-wind-farm-birds.webp?fit=1200%2C795&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":266864,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=266864","url_meta":{"origin":388697,"position":1},"title":"Central Bankers Predicted Net Zero Would Lower Inflation \u2013 and Got it Spectacularly Wrong","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"07\/12\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Central bankers around the world claimed the Net Zero transition away from fossil fuels would lower inflation, but new analysis from top financial services firm Nomura has found it is in fact driving it. 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