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Lost Seasider said:
That doesn't appear to answer the question.

Is battery storage remotely practical in the UK on a GW scale?
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You didn’t mention the UK did you?

There is no current bun to speak of on the windswept island as you know.

The battery storage is used for wind and can be used for hydro generated power for the UK.
 
Lost Seasider said:
You've still not answered the question, I wonder why.
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I’m not sure why you don’t know about battery storage or why you think it isn’t being used around the world.

The wind turbines in the UK have battery storage. It’s normal. The windmill turns and it charges a battery and the battery then feeds into the grid, if there is no wind then the energy that can be stored in the batteries is fed into the grid.

Germany has around 40% of its electricity from renewable energy.

I’m sure the UK was up to around 50% renewable as of last year but I’ll stand corrected.

So, to answer your question it is already scaled up as I said, it is already happening
 
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Lost Seasider said:
You've still not answered the question, I wonder why.
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“The contribution made by renewables to UK power generation has more than doubled since 2014. Renewables (mainly wind, solar, biomass, hydro) accounted for 43% of the UK's 312 TWh of domestic power generation in 2020.”

Here 👆🏻
 
glasshalffull said:
Lots of big solar fields in the UK now as well.
On the way to Wembley for the play off final last year I saw an awful lot between Peterborough and London near the East Coast Line.
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“The contribution made by renewables to UK power generation has more than doubled since 2014. Renewables (mainly wind, solar, biomass, hydro) accounted for 43% of the UK's 312 TWh of domestic power generation in 2020.”

Did you notice any biomass going on from the train? 😉
 
Seasider3610 said:
“The contribution made by renewables to UK power generation has more than doubled since 2014. Renewables (mainly wind, solar, biomass, hydro) accounted for 43% of the UK's 312 TWh of domestic power generation in 2020.”

Here 👆🏻
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That's only domestic energy which accounts for 29% of total energy consumption. So renewables are closer to 15% overall.
 
BigHandsOliverKahn said:
That's only domestic energy which accounts for 29% of total energy consumption. So renewables are closer to 15% overall.
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Ok however you want to interpret it is fine by me.

“UK Renewables' share of total generation was 42.8 per cent in 2021 Q4, up by 2.1 percentage points on 2020 Q4. This is the third highest percentage share on record, after Q1 and Q2 2020 (47.2 and 44.5 per cent respectively).4 days ago”
 
Seasider3610 said:
I’m not sure why you don’t know about battery storage or why you think it isn’t being used around the world.

The wind turbines in the UK have battery storage. It’s normal. The windmill turns and it charges a battery and the battery then feeds into the grid, if there is no wind then the energy that can be stored in the batteries is fed into the grid.

Germany has around 40% of its electricity from renewable energy.

I’m sure the UK was up to around 50% renewable as of last year but I’ll stand corrected.

So, to answer your question it is already scaled up as I said, it is already happening
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How much storage does each turbine have? How many hours of full output does that represent?

Is it installed for anything other than balancing very short term fluctuations in output?
 
Seasider3610 said:
“The contribution made by renewables to UK power generation has more than doubled since 2014. Renewables (mainly wind, solar, biomass, hydro) accounted for 43% of the UK's 312 TWh of domestic power generation in 2020.”

Did you notice any biomass going on from the train? 😉
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No. They used to grow quite a lot of energy crops in Staffordshire and Shropshire near where I used to live though.
 
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