New plan to kickstart onshore wind revolution
..but is there the infrastructure to handle this? Octopus energy has recently added a ticker to the top of their website to show how much money has been wasted on turning off wind turbines.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-plan-to-kickstart-onshore-wind-revolutionOpen linkView original on lemmy.world
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Yeah, without the grid scale energy storage, this is little more than green washing. I think we should utilise the UK portfolio of wind turbines as close as 100% as possible before building any more.
They do address energy storage in the full plan e.g.: