New analysis from
LCP’s Energy Analytics team highlights how rapidly scaling up battery storage capacity in Great Britain is key to avoiding large volumes of renewable energy wastage and providing clean energy to power millions of homes.
Based on current wind power capacity, LCP estimates an extra 20GWh of battery storage could reduce the amount of wind power wasted by up to 50%. LCP predict by 2025, wind curtailments between Scotland and England will cost consumers £1bn per year. This figure is likely to grow with wind set to play a central role in future renewable energy with the UK Government aiming to quadruple the amount of offshore wind capacity to 40GW by 2030.
99 Mph Wind Clocked in Larimer County Wednesday Night
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Wind speeds ranged from 50 to 70 mph in the Fort Collins area on Wednesday night, with one town in Larimer County recording near-100 mph winds, the National Weather Service reported.
Around 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, January 13, the town of Glen Haven had wind gusts clocked at 99 mph. Glen Haven is west of Loveland, and north of Estes Park.
January 13 top wind speeds in Northern Colorado Wellington: 77 mph
Wyoming border (I-25): 64 mph
Greeley: 62 mph
Fort Collins: 51 mph
Combining offshore wind and green hydrogen is still too expensive January 14, 2021
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OSLO Several large-scale offshore wind farms are planned in the next five years in the North Sea. The area not only has plenty of ageing platforms and pipelines that could host production and transmission of hydrogen cheaply, but also salt caverns to store it at low cost.
Rystad Energy has therefore looked at the economics of blending green hydrogen production with offshore wind development. This hybrid approach offers promising elements, but the high costs at least for now remain a show-stopper.
Rystad Energy’s modeling is based on combining a green hydrogen project with an offshore wind farm of 1 gigawatt (GW), assuming that about half of the farm’s generated power is excess and used for hydrogen production.