I suppose it had to happen these ugly blights on the tops of mountains can now cause blackouts , yesterday as I look around mountains (not much breeze) one or two turbines try to turn a little then fall back exausted. Not sure how this flywheel works ? , although it must take a lot of power to get it rotating. Glad to hear that they are now keeping Kilroot power station open (it was running coal / oil and owned by the AES Corporation). In 2019 it was sold to a subsidiary of Energetický a průmyslový holding. They are going to converting it to gas.
www.theguardian.com/.../giant-flywheel-project-in-scotland-could-prevent-uk-blackouts-energy
EXCLUSIVE. £1MILLION was paid out to wind farm owners to turn off their turbines and stop generating electricity for Northern Ireland's power grid for 20 months.7 hours ago
And in january:-
Wind farms paid up to £3 million per day to switch off turbineswww.telegraph.co.uk › News › Politics
19 Jan 2020 - Wind farms were paid up to £3 million per day to switch off their turbines and not produce electricity last week, The Telegraph can disclose. ... the additional expense of a £1 billion interconnector that is itself proving unreliable.
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jcm
