A new multinational project to further develop wind power generation in the North Sea will be joined by the UK today, which looks like good news, despite concerns about the capacity of interconnectors & the Q. of whether connecting wind farms to more than one national energy system, may allow operators to play systems off against each other to maximise their return.
However, on the face of it more international cooperation in the green transition is welcome.
The latest auction of offshore and farm contracts has seen a number of successful bids (dominated by RWE from Germany) as opposed to the last round which saw no bids at the lower contract price offered.
In the long-run its good news at it (again) expends wind generation capacity, but will again refocus attention on interconnectivity & network capacity where the energy links land (primarily on the east coast).
an illustration of a girl with a white and brown dress flying above pink and blue clouds with a brown umbrella; the scene also has a lot of airborne pollen and a crescent moon
GIF footage of professional paraglider Wendi Wang dressed as a witch flying on a broom with a black cat plushie while she's paragliding over a snow-covered ski resort
"From 2010 to 2023, wind power delivered a benefit of £147.5 billion — £14.2 billion from lower electricity prices and £133.3 billion from reduced natural gas prices. If we offset the £43.2 billion in wind energy subsidies, UK consumers saved £104.3 billion compared with what their energy bills would have been without investment in wind generation.
UK wind energy production has transformed over the past 15 years. In 2010, more than 75% of electricity was generated from fossil fuels. By 2025, coal has ceased and wind is the largest source of power at 30% – more than natural gas at 26%." https://theconversation.com/wind-power-has-saved-uk-consumers-over-100-billion-since-2010-new-study-266702 #electricity#windPower#renewables
@pluralistic
Wind power is already the future, and now its clear that it has contributed to lessening UK energy bills... not only that wind (as part of the renewable energy sector) is generating (pun intended) jobs & underpinning new investment as part of the green transition... now we just need to get vendor fully behind it.
Wild. Colorado is short on transmission lines to get the massive amount of #solar and #windpower generated in the southern part of the state up to the Denver metro area, so… they run freight trains full of giant batteries up and down the Front Range. These trains used to ship hundreds of tons of coal, but are shipping less now as the coal fired power plants are being decommissioned: too dirty and too expensive. https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/suntrain-experimental-train-car-solar-energy-union-pacific-rail-lines-colorado/
a GIF of a scene from American Beauty of Ricky's camcorder footage of a white plastic bag being blown about in the wind on a city sidewalk in front of a brick wall; two viewers are captivated watching the bag and leaves swirl around and catch air
a children's book illustration of several hot air balloons in a cloudy sky; in the closest balloon, the boy pilot is reaching out to grab a girl floating just out of reach; this girl's hair looks like a cloud, she doesn't have visible arms or legs, but there are floating boots where her feet would be
spore by reinforced
홀씨 by 김레인: Naver, pixiv, Twitter #windpower
Harry Didi flew on a broomstick by flyhellodidi
YouTube, Instagram, Tiktok #windpower
American Beauty: The Dancing Bag by Sam Mendes
YouTube, Wikipedia, YouTube #windpower
The cloud girl in the sky by Wakou Okada
Artstation, Behance, Instagram, Twitter #multipletypes #balloons #windpower #illusion
Floating Mirajane by Elyn Gontier
DeviantArt, Artstation, Instagram #windpower