While hot air output shot up in Glasgow, Europe’s great wind drought continues unabated. Wind power output amounted to a trickle through most of September and into October. We dubbed it the ‘Big Calm’. Well, the Big Calm appears now to be less of an anomaly than the new normal.
In Britain, grid operators are scrambling for every watt they can find; pressing old coal-fired power plants back into action to keep the lights on. So much for Boris Johnson’s all-wind powered future!
The wholesale power market is, as to be expected, in a state of perfect pandemonium. And it’s all down to a lack of wind, as Dr John Constable reports.
Coal keeps lights on at COP26 as low wind strikes again
Net Zero Watch
John Constable
3 November 2021
The UK’s failing renewable strategy is a national embarrassment. Critically low wind power, for nearly the whole of yesterday…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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