The UK’s installed wind power
capacity is 19,261 MW
Load Factor for all wind: 30.1%
At 30.1% load factor, 19,261 MW of
capacity is generating on average over the year 5,797.6 MW.
But for a 13 day x
24 hour period (312 hours) it only generated 963.4 MW.
That’s 4,834.2 MW lower
than average.
For battery storage to make up this shortfall it would have to
deliver
4,834.2 MW x 312 hours: 1,508,270 MWh
At £419,050/MWh, the cost of battery
capacity to deliver 1,508,270 MWh is
£632 billion
THAT’S 632 BILLIONS OF
£££££s
The Tesla Powerpack 2 unit has a
capacity of 0.2 MWh, so to deliver 1,508,270 MWh would require:
7,541,350 Powerpack 2 units.
With
a base measurement of 1.308m x 0.822m the land area occupied by 7,541,350
Powerpack 2 units would be
8.1 km2 (2.85km
x 2.85km).
The cost of ‘solving’ a random 13 day
intermittency issue is when the idiocy of renewable dissolves into lunacy. Talk
of breakthroughs in battery technology and wonderful new storage techniques is
revealed as pure dreamland fantasy.
