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Irish national grid and wind power

Needler · 2011-07-17 21:34:43

The eirgrid.com site is very interesting and shows a lot of interesting statistics but is there any measure of how much fuel is actually wasted due to our usage of wind turbines? Like for example if during a quiet time in the summer only 1.3GW is used and 1.3GW is generated at the same time by wind turbines there are still…

17-07-2011 09:34PM

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The eirgrid.com site is very interesting and shows a lot of interesting statistics but is there any measure of how much fuel is actually wasted due to our usage of wind turbines?

Like for example if during a quiet time in the summer only 1.3GW is used and 1.3GW is generated at the same time by wind turbines there are still oldschool thermal powerstations ticking over and running them at less than peak efficiency wastes fuel.

The anti-wind turbine crowd will probably tell me the situation is terrible while the proponents will say its not so bad. but are there any solid figures for fuel saved/wasted due to wind turbines?

How well can our grid respond to increased wind generation and has it been built using inefficient gas turbines specifically to accomodate wind generation?

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