Powering the World with Wind | The Clean Energy Revolution Podcast S3: E3
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) forecasts that, with sustained policy support and investment, global wind capacity could reach 2,000 GW by 2030. This would be a significant contribution to net zero goals, so what does this sustained policy support look like? Where does the investment need to go, and where are we seeing innovation in the sector?
On The Clean Energy Revolution, Carolyn and Laura explore the policy, technological advancements, investment needs, and the pivotal role of international cooperation in developing wind power.
Laura is in Bilbao at the WindEurope annual conference. Giles Dickson is CEO, and he joins Laura as the conference gets underway. Together they highlight the role of the North Sea as a pivotal energy hub for Europe, as Giles talks about the need for increased cooperation among North Sea bordering countries to maximize the region's wind energy potential. What does the wind sector look like on the East side of the Atlantic?
Carolyn is in New York, with Will Hazelip, President of National Grid Ventures for the U.S. Northeast, to discuss the outlook for wind power in the region. Wind power in the US has seen substantial growth in the last two decades; 6 terawatt-hours in 2000 to 434 in 2022. What’s the potential for growth over the next decade, and beyond? Major projects such as South Fork Wind Farm and Vineyard Wind show the scale of ambition in the north-east, and the progress that’s being made to the 30GW target for 2030 set by the Biden administration [Source: American Clean Power Association]. Carolyn and Will examine the state cooperation and policy support for offshore wind projects - projects that are perfectly placed to provide New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Washington DC with firm, reliable clean energy.
As of the end of 2022, the UK's offshore wind capacity stood at over 10 GW, contributing significantly to the country's renewable energy mix. The UK government aims to reach 50 GW of offshore wind capacity by 2030 to meet increasing electricity demands and sustainability goals [Source: RenewableUK]. Across Europe, the goal is 300 GW by 2030.
The main talking points to come out of the WindEurope event, as Laura explains, are the complexities of scaling wind energy, the necessity of robust commercial frameworks, the impact of NIMBYism, and the crucial aspect of community engagement in wind projects.
Matt Hinde, Head of European Affairs for National Grid Ventures, and Katie Jackson, President of NGV, also join this episode to explore these key points: the critical need for substantial investment and development in wind energy to meet future electricity demands, the importance of state cooperation and international collaboration to harness wind power effectively, and the significant challenges posed by supply chain issues, regulatory hurdles, and community opposition.
This looks really great
Boris Johnson did NOT say that about windfarms.
He was trying to initiate modular nuclear power stations.
Interesting to See how the Nuklear Power Plants that the UK is building fits in to the grid and the markets...
🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣😂😂Hilarious. Which ones? The ones that are not going online or those that cost a leg and an arm to operate?
Nuclear is to help provide Base load to replace outdated coal plants etc, renewables are great but you cannot entirely depend a nations power on renewable as it’s intermittent, sun doesn’t always shine, wind doesn’t always blow etc, simple!
@@dwdrum11 "enewables are great but you cannot entirely depend a nations power on renewable as it’s intermittent" Wrong. You can.
Give me one single proof that it is not possible for e.g. Germany or Spain Or South Africa or Norway - justpick any country including Greenland to produce all of their energy on their own land without the use of fossil ressources.
Uranium is of course a limited fossil ressource.
Depending on the sun is dangerous?
The whole earth including mankind does this for many many many years and will continue to do it for the next billions of years.
Without grid storage it's well past diminishing returns isn't it?
Apparently in 2023 green energy was paid nearly 600 million when wind farms had to be turned off?
This will only increase adding to ppl's bills.
This added £30-40 to everyone's bills for STOPPED non usage energy?
Yes, you need batteries and long term storage. No fossils helping you.
Yes, energy storage is important, but also better connections, long range transmission, so that energy can be sent from where there is too much to where is not enough. Also electricity consumption will keep increasing, as heating and transportation are electrified
In 2021 UK total energy consumption was about 1500TWh, if we electrify everything (including heating, transport, industry etc) it would drop to approx 1000TWh. If that was all supplied by offshore wind and taking into account capacity factors that would be 285GW . So the UK needs most of that 300GW.
300GW by 2050 for the whole of Europe is a disaster, it's no where near enough and time is running out.
1/3rd is my guess. But whatever. of course 285GW is by far not enough. You must reserve at least 3 times more during summer times for the Dunkelflaute.
Solar?
@@gilesgoldsbro5816 Yes, where possible and profitable. Sea where possible. Water, geothermal where available.
@@wolfgangpreier9160
That is only true if their is no storage that is appropriate and assuming there was storage you only would need some extra to compensate for losses in the storage 'charge/discharge' cycle.
We would need 1000TWh generated per year, you don't need extra TWh of storage, you need whatever is needed to supply that 1000TWh to the consumer which would be a mixture of technologies.
@@gilesgoldsbro5816
Sure. The 1000TWh can be made up from any generation source, with renewables storage would be needed to manage variability. But the 1000TWh has to be the generation capacity, storage doesn't produce extra TWh it just allows the power to be time shifted.