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Why We Are Here => Water Cooler => Topic started by: rcjordan on May 02, 2022, 07:08:35 PM

Title: UK: Offshore Construction Begins for Record-Setting Dogger Bank Wind Farm
Post by: rcjordan on May 02, 2022, 07:08:35 PM

https://gcaptain.com/offshore-construction-begins-for-record-setting-dogger-bank-wind-farm/
Title: Re: UK: Offshore Construction Begins for Record-Setting Dogger Bank Wind Farm
Post by: ergophobe on May 03, 2022, 04:40:20 AM
Each of the three phases is slightly bigger than each of the two units at Diablo nuclear plant and twice the total size of Vermont Yankee, which provided much of Vermont's power when I was a kid.

It's more intermittent of course, but that's still a lot of juice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_Canyon_Power_Plant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_Yankee_Nuclear_Power_Plant
Title: Re: UK: Offshore Construction Begins for Record-Setting Dogger Bank Wind Farm
Post by: BoL on May 03, 2022, 01:38:14 PM
6 million homes is a decent fraction of all homes in the UK, round about a 1/5th.

I'm waiting for battery prices to drop a little more, it'll then be economical to stock up on energy on sunny/windy periods on a tariff like Octopus Agile - prices are determined every half hour.

Seems like the whole sector will need shook up over the next 10 years, from generation, transmission costs, oversight - the whole lot.

Still see a lot of comments online about the cost of renewables being expensive, which they were 10 years ago.
Title: Re: UK: Offshore Construction Begins for Record-Setting Dogger Bank Wind Farm
Post by: Brad on May 03, 2022, 05:42:43 PM
>> once completed in 2026

The British are not messing around.  That is fast for such a huge project.