{"id":8075,"date":"2018-05-18T12:32:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T11:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8075"},"modified":"2018-05-18T12:32:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T11:32:12","slug":"one-thing-learnt-week-wind-overtakes-nuclear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8075","title":{"rendered":"One thing we have learnt this week – wind overtakes nuclear"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"wind<\/a>Wind overtakes nuclear, that’s the headline this week.\u00a0 The UK has had one of the harshest winters for many years but our increasingly renewably based electricity system has coped very well.\u00a0 Wind overtakes nuclear increasingly often but this is the first quarter that it happened.\u00a0 In Q1 2018 wind produced 18.8% of all electricity.\u00a0 On the 17th March after dark wind produced almost half.\u00a0 In this period as you can imagine solar did not make much of a contribution.\u00a0 On March 1st wind managed up to 13.8GWh but solar only 200MW.\u00a0 Presumably since the solar panels were covered in snow.\u00a0 Demand rose with heating and was a three year record (generally peak demand has been falling).\u00a0 Prices have risen and the price of gas has soared meaning some coal use was economic.\u00a0 The fact that wind overtook nuclear was helped by the fact that 3 reactors were off line.\u00a0 Two more maintenance and one had a blockage due to seaweed!<\/p>\n

The direction of travel is clear though.\u00a0 Soon renewables will overtake nuclear permanently.\u00a0 As I write this solar is producing more power than nuclear.\u00a0 This is probably going to be helped by accelerated closures due to cracked graphite control mechanisms.\u00a0 The only question is when will this occur.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wind overtakes nuclear, that’s the headline this week.\u00a0 The UK has had one of the harshest winters for many years but our increasingly renewably based electricity system has coped very well.\u00a0 Wind overtakes nuclear increasingly often but this is the … Continue reading →<\/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":[25,17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear","category-one-thing-we-have-learnt-this-week","category-renewables"],"yoast_head":"\nOne thing we have learnt this week - wind overtakes nuclear - The oil lamp - shining God's light on peak oil<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8075\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8075\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8075\",\"name\":\"One thing we have learnt this week - 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