{"id":31,"date":"2012-07-05T20:13:59","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T20:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=31"},"modified":"2013-07-30T21:41:04","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T20:41:04","slug":"renewable-energy-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"Renewable energy data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I came across <a href=\" http:\/\/www.businessgreen.com\/bg\/news\/2187748\/government-reveals-surge-uk-renewable-energy-generation\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>.\u00a0 The UK governments quarterly energy data for 2012 has shown record renewable energy production.\u00a0 There was lots of wind, lots of rain and even solar power shows up with sufficient capacity to be measurable.\u00a0 This last figure is encouraging with 0.17TWh of electricity generated, especially since the first quarter has relatively low output (see graph of data from my 1kW system).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/solar-output.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-46\" title=\"Neil's system solar output.  The error bars show a statistical measure of the variation over 8 years.\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/solar-output-300x251.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/solar-output-300x251.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/solar-output-1024x859.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another interesting feature was that total primary energy consumption fell by over 1% taking into account weather differences.\u00a0 This suggests we are slowly learning to use less energy.\u00a0 However, despite this encouraging news carbon based fuels still dominate, despite gas use for electricity generation having fallen.\u00a0 We have a long way to go and little time to make the journey&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I came across this.\u00a0 The UK governments quarterly energy data for 2012 has shown record renewable energy production.\u00a0 There was lots of wind, lots of rain and even solar power shows up with sufficient capacity to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=31\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peak-oil","category-renewables"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>energy data<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The other day I came across this. 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