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International Energy Agency Predicts Wind Will Dominate Europe's Grid By 2027 (arstechnica.com)
AmiMoJo shares a report from Ars Technica: Today, roughly 25 percent of the European Union's power currently comes from nuclear sources, with coal and gas each delivering a little above 20 percent. Wind constitutes 10 percent of the European Union's energy mix. But by 2027, IEA's forecasts (PDF) put wind just beating all other electricity sources with a 23-percent share of the energy mix. "Other Renewables" like biomass plants contribute a little over 20 percent, gas adds 20 percent, nuclear contributes just a little below 20 percent, and coal declines to just over 10 percent. Solar energy contributes about six or seven percent in the IEA's 2027 scenario. The European Union has a wealth of wind energy, especially offshore wind energy, a sector in which the EU is the global leader. Offshore wind allows turbines to be built bigger, and coastal winds are often stronger and more consistent than onshore winds. [The IEA forecasts 200 gigawatts (GW) of installed capacity by 2040.]
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aka lots of hot air blowing out of Brussels...
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Good luck running heavy industry on wind.
POTUS knows the truth, Europe is totally dependent upon Russia for it's energy. SAD!
We need power when we want it not just when the wind blows. Wind is a nightmare to manage. In Ontario and our neighbouring US states it has been so badly managed that the price of electricity goes negative. (the governments guarantee a price for the wind mill operators regardless to whether or not anyone needs the energy). While during our highest demand the wind often isn't blowing at all.
I hope they are researching and planning for large capacity storage solutions. They are a couple intriguing ones that could be tried. Personally i like hydro storage because it can be done with all existing tech (two reservoirs, pipe, pumps, generators). These already exist but it would be cool to see them on large scale to see if it is practical on a huge scale.
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And in the heads of their pseudo-humanoid livestock.
No surprise it would dominate in the grid aswell.
but in another 20-30 years we're not gonna have a lot of oil based energy. Cars, even if they don't move to electric, are rapidly becoming unaffordable. And solar, wind and nuclear keep getting better.
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"In Ontario and our neighbouring US states it has been so badly managed that the price of electricity goes negative" - Blaming the entire TYPE OF POWER for bureaucracy and stonewalling by utilities, nice work MORON.
I'm pretty sure mosques are going to dominate Europe by 2027.
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It sounds like wind has some fans in the EU.
Firstly as far as I know Denmark has the highest capacity in wind power in the world and it ain't 50% but 42%. Nitpick but detail are important, because the reason this is viable is because they use neighbors (Sweden, Norway) country HYDRO power as a storage (look it up) ! Guess how many country could do that ? Not that many. There is a reason traditional baseload plant are required in most countries. Citing EDGE cases as if it could be generalized is stupid.
Wind power produced electrons work just the same as coal power produced ones. Wind is more predictable and no less unreliable than any other source.
And why didn't it need power when coal stopped???
Since negative pricing therefore happens all the time, why the fuck is renewable a reason to cry about it?
Oh, and please tell me why the HVDC cables were introduced to the UK.
Hint: nuclear power production.
And that is all that we'll need for renewables, you idiotic blowhard. Why the fuck do you think we have the HVDC? Nuclear. Because when it goes down we need to stabilise the grid from a MASSIVE loss of production.
Or is nuclear power produced magically free by the nuke fairy in your insane world?
Of course he has no REASON for it not to count, just wants it not to.
I don't really get the environmentalists' enthusiasm to wind and solar power. Both of these are highly unreliable, and in colder regions do NOT provide highest peak of power when it is most needed, like cold weather in north means no light and extremely low wind. On the other hand nuclear power is not easy to adjust, so they are using coal power-plants to get quickly adjustable energy. The more there is uncertainty the more these environmentally bad power plants need to be available.
In Finland we also have this stupid idea that wind power has certain price they are guaranteed to get from everything they produce. Someone has actually calculated how much it costs http://tuulivahinko.fi/ if you have chrome you can translate the page, but basically for this year it is ~ 149 000 000€ down the drain. IMO this could have waited until these technologies are economically viable on their own. World has plenty of places were solar and wind already make sense, but in a place like Finland it is like growing pineapples on north pole. That money could have spent on more innovative technologies to generate electricity that would not have as much uncertainty and thus having positive impact on environment. I highly doubt current wind power is environmentally positive here, because the coal etc power it needs to support it.
Now all we have to do is make the wind blow and we are set!