[gorush]

[cicero2k]

The only way the industry managed to fool politicians into accepting this crazy deal was by subterfuge — referring to turbines only in terms of their ‘capacity’ (i.e. what they could produce if the wind was blowing at optimum speeds 24 hours of every day). The truth is that their average actual output is barely a quarter of that figure.

Yep. Barely 25% a capacity factor when your average coal-gas-nuclear plant gets 90%

How no one warned on this, I have no idea.

We had to wait for the numbers to come on a large scale for this collapse to happen.

[Chode]

one destroys itself

[dennisw]

Many or most of these wind farms have been put up by foreign corporations that snagged the subsidies and tax breaks. A totally ridiculous state of affairs. So now despite EU green energy mandates UK is stopping them, they should have done it years ago

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

The only way the industry managed to fool politicians into accepting this crazy deal was by subterfuge — referring to turbines only in terms of their ‘capacity’ (i.e. what they could produce if the wind was blowing at optimum speeds 24 hours of every day). The truth is that their average actual output is barely a quarter of that figure. Yet it was on this deception that the industry managed to fool pretty well everyone that windfarms could make a contribution to Britain’s energy needs four times larger than reality — and thus was ‘the great wind scam’ launched on its way.

Not to mention all the required fossil fuel plants running in spin mode for standby power when the winds are not blowing.

This is what happens when a majority of your politicians are lawyers.

This was obvious to any engineer worth his salt.