Solar power use hits record high in UK

[OKIsItJustMe]

http://eandt.theiet.org/news/2016/jul/solar-power-uk-high.cfm

[font face=Serif][font size=5]Solar power use hits record high in UK[/font]

4 July 2016 | By Jonathan Wilson

[font size=4]Solar power has hit new record highs in the UK, providing almost a quarter of the country's electricity at one point in June, analysis shows.[/font]

[font size=3]Analysis by MyGridGB for the Solar Trade Association (STA) shows that solar power hit a new peak, meeting 23.9 per cent of total energy demand in the early afternoon on 5 June 2016.

The solar industry estimates the country now has almost 12GW of solar panels, on homes, offices, warehouses, schools and other buildings and in solar farms - enough to power the equivalent of 3.8 million homes.

An estimated 800,000 homes have solar photovoltaic panels, which produce electricity from the sun, and 200,000 use solar thermal units to provide hot water, which means the UK has a million solar homes, the STA said.

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The combined contribution of all renewable energy sources (solar, tidal, wind and wave) has already supplied over a quarter of the UK’s energy generation, hitting a new high in March 2016.[/font][/font]

[Kelvin Mace]

1. 4.5 megawatts so far this year

Solar works, and we need to do all we can to reduce its installation cost.

[NNadir]

3. A watt is a unit of power, not energy. Therefore "watts" don't accumulate, joules do.

A relatively small power plant is on the order of 250 MW, many plants are 1500 MW or more.

The solar industry is an expensive failure that hasn't worked, isn't working and won't work. The world spent nearly a trillion dollars on solar junk in the last ten years, and it doesn't even produce 2 of the 570 exajoules of energy that humanity consumes each year.

It's a popular fantasy and fad, a little bit longer lived than the fads about say, Brittany Spears and Miley Cyrus. What it generates is complacency, not energy.

[Kelvin Mace]

4. 4.5 Megawatt HOURS

My apologies for not being clear.

As to the rest of your views, they are cerainly interesting and you are entitled to them.

[NNadir]

5. You mean therefore, 16 gigajoules, which translates to average continuous power on an...

...annualized basis to 513 watts. This is the power output of a single small idling lawn mower.

This seems about right for the over hyped, toxic and extremely expensive solar industry, which sucks money endlessly out of the world economy for no good meaningful result.

The world energy consumption is 570 exajoules per year. 4.5 MWh = 16 Gj = 2.84 hundred billionths of the world energy supply.

We can understand therefore why the trillion dollar quantities of money spent on the toxic and failed solar industry that might have been used in a million actually useful ways has led to the record setting accumulations of carbon dioxide that we are seeing in 2016, even worse than the record setting 2015.

Of course the root cause for the atmosphere is the ease with which we lie to ourselves.

[Kelvin Mace]

6. Well, it has been enough to completely power my house since

March, and that includes my Nissan Leaf, driving to and from work, plus my errands. My average production over the year is about 30kWh a day, which is meeting about 70% of my energy needs. The 4.5 mWhs produced is only for the first half of the year, and the total for this year will be around 10 mWhs.

I am not going to argue with someone who has strong, and in my opinion, irrational views on this topic. Based on your avatar I would guess you like nukes, which I am not entirely against, as long as someone explains how they are going to handle the waste.

[NNadir]

2. Wow. The early afternoon on June 5, 2016 was GREAT!!!!!!!!!

Even more "percent talk" coupled with selective attention fixed on two or three hours of June, 5, 2016. This sort of rhetoric is absurd, since it is widely reported that there are 365.25 days per year.

From the link on the bottom of the post:

Margins between peak electricity demand and the amount of power generation will be very tight in the coming winter, it is being warned.

Michael Grubb, professor of energy and climate change policy at University College London, said: "The system has the greatest risk of supply stress this winter.

"I don't think the lights will go out for any domestic consumers, but there are other things that may have to be done."

From next winter, additional measures will be implemented including payments for capacity to be on the system, more interconnectors with Europe, and more development of schemes that manage demand...

...The emissions figures showed greenhouse gas pollution from the business sector fell by 3.1 per cent, driven by a reduction in the use of blast furnace gas for iron and steel industrial combustion as a result of the closure of the SSI steelworks at Redcar.

But emissions from transport, the public sector and homes all rose, with slightly cooler temperatures in 2015 than the previous year leading to an increase in gas heating by households.

It was revealed yesterday that Scotland’s electricity transmission network would be getting a £500m upgrade in the form of a 1200 megawatt subsea cable to improve the connections between its wind, wave and tidal renewable energy schemes and the National Grid.

I guess the steel for all those wind turbines won't be made in Britain.

And in any case, despite all this happy horseshit about "renewables on June 5, 2015" the rate of the atmospheric collapse remains at historic highs. The week ending June 29, 2016 came in at 3.88 ppm more carbon dioxide than the same week last year.

Somebody somewhere, maybe everyone everywhere is kidding themselves.