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UK’s wasted wind power laid bare by new Octopus tracking tool (www.rechargenews.com)
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Britain wasted £649m already this year powering down wind farms as there is not enough grid capacity to send renewable energy where it is needed, utility finds

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[–] ratel@mander.xyz 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A guy who works there made this map that shows wind energy consumption in real time it's pretty sweet. Link

[–] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago

Oh, that's cool.

[–] evenglow@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

In China for years if large grid scale wind or solar was installed energy storage was required. Something about wind not always blowing or night time if I remember correctly.