{"id":450504,"date":"2026-06-15T10:40:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T17:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=450504"},"modified":"2026-06-15T10:40:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T17:40:27","slug":"too-much-wind-and-too-much-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=450504","title":{"rendered":"Too Much Wind and Too Much\u00a0Sun"},"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

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Stop building wind farms, EDF boss urges Miliband<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Just returning to the EDF boss\u2019 appeal to stop building wind farms because the country has too much electricity, yesterday\u2019s generation mix shows exactly why he is right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PV_Live \u2013 Sheffield Solar<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There were times during the day when wind, solar and nuclear were supplying nearly all of the demand. (The gap between demand, the blue line, and generation is made up of imported electricity).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But fast forward to 2030, by when Miliband plans to have three times as much wind and solar capacity, and it does not take a genius to work out that the grid will be swamped with surplus power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At peak generation around midday, we would have more than 70 GW of wind, solar and nuclear power, none of which we can simply switch on and off. Demand meanwhile would be 30 GW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You could of course store some of that surplus, though we have nowhere near enough battery storage to do so currently. But that would not be of much help either, because at night demand drops to around 20 GW, while wind and nuclear were still producing 40 GW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are taking unprecedented risks with our electricity system, because those in charge of energy policy have no conception of how it works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just returning to the EDF boss\u2019 appeal to stop building wind farms because the country has too much electricity, yesterday\u2019s generation mix shows exactly why he is right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":450512,"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":[691841795,691818656,691818154,691843676,691819094,691818728,691818180],"class_list":["post-450504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ed-milibands-department-of-energy-security-and-net-zero-desnz","tag-electricity","tag-net-zero","tag-over-capacity","tag-renewable-green-energy","tag-wind-and-solar","tag-wind-farms","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0-%F0%9D%97%A7%F0%9D%97%BC%F0%9D%97%BC-%F0%9D%97%A0%F0%9D%98%82%F0%9D%97%B0%F0%9D%97%B5-%F0%9D%97%AA%F0%9D%97%B6%F0%9D%97%BB%F0%9D%97%B1-%F0%9D%97%AE%F0%9D%97%BB%F0%9D%97%B1-%F0%9D%97%A7%F0%9D%97%BC%F0%9D%97%BC-%F0%9D%97%A0%F0%9D%98%82%F0%9D%97%B0%F0%9D%97%B5-%F0%9D%97%A6%F0%9D%98%82%F0%9D%97%BB.jpg?fit=1168%2C784&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1Tcc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":346723,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=346723","url_meta":{"origin":450504,"position":0},"title":"Why an age of energy rationing is looming over\u00a0Britain","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"10\/14\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"It was the warning Ed Miliband didn\u2019t want to hear. 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