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01:36:31 Tuesday, 26 June 2012 ===============================Renewable Britain: A report.
Bristol channel is at high tide. No tidal power would be produced by the highest tidal range in the UK at this point in time.
Its dark. No solar power is generating anything - unless its under a streetlamp one supposes.
A ridge of high pressure sits over the UK The total metered wind output across the whole country is just 31 MW. That's right. 31MW Enough to supply every household (26 million of them) with about 1.2W
Demand is over 27GW.
The Interconnector to France is totally out of action.
The Interconnector from Holland is running flat out (1GW). Its doing more than all the wind in the UK by a factor of 20.
Dinorwig is no help. Its being recharged.
Even Scottish hydro is doing f*ck all - 76MW. But that's more than twice what the wind is doing.
We hear screams of delight when 'for the first time wind supplied 10% of the grid'
Let's hear it for the time when despite the vast amounts of money spent on it, renewable energy was supplying less than 0.05% of the UK demand.
"All the windmills in the UK are not supplying enough electricity to charge an I pod in every house in the country"
"All the renewable energy in the country - including hydro - is not enough to light a single energy saving lightbulb in every household in the country"
That's £10bn and thousands of landscapes ruined, houses devalued and birds killed, well spent, then.