Despite Europe spending €1.2 Trillion on large-scale wind and solar generation, the amount of power being actually delivered in return is risible.
Which is precisely what you’d expect from power generation sources which can only deliver anything like their nameplate capacity when the sun is up, in a cloudless sky, and the wind is blowing at wind speeds greater than 6m/s. Drop the sun drops the wind speed and the whole lot drops off the radar.
For the uninitiated, Ed Hoskins tells the story in pictures below.
A Few Graphs Say It All for Weather-Dependent “Renewables”
Watts Up With That?
Ed Hoskins
5 October 2022
A few graphs say it all for Wind and Solar power
This is the 10-year productivity record for European Weather-Dependent “Renewables”: that is the annual power output divided by the nominal installation rating of the Weather-Dependent “Renewables” installations over the last decade. The data is…
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