#windenergy

🇳🇿 Yesterday wind was ~8% of New Zealand electricity generation (9.1GWh). Solar was ~1% (1.6GWh). Hydro was ~61% (67.2GWh). Geothermal was ~26% (28.4GWh). Source: EM6

🇦🇺 Yesterday wind was ~8% of eastern Australia electricity generation (54GWh). All solar was ~20% (128GWh). Net hydro was ~8% (48.8GWh). Battery output was 17.1GWh. (W/o WA & NT) Source: OpenElectric

🇺🇸 Yesterday wind was ~8% of MISO electricity generation (183.4GWh). Solar was ~6% (143.8GWh). Battery output was 1.6GWh. Source: MISO

🇺🇸⭐️ Yesterday wind was ~30% of Texas electricity generation (535GWh). Solar was ~18% (315GWh). Hydro was ~0% (1GWh). Battery output was 25GWh. Source: Modo Energy

🇺🇸 Yesterday wind was ~11% of California electricity generation in CAISO's territory (77GWh). Solar was ~32% (223GWh). All hydro was ~8% (57GWh). Geothermal was ~2% (17GWh). Battery output was 50.2GWh. Source: CAISO

🇳🇱 Yesterday wind was ~3% of Netherlands electricity generation (11GWh). Solar was ~39% (147.3GWh). Source: NED

The Culzean floating wind turbine that will power a UK gas platform is ready for tow (UK) INTOG was designed to decarbonise oil and gas platforms rather than supply the grid, and this is the first unit from that programme to reach tow-out...

🇵🇹 Yesterday wind power was ~14% of Portugal electricity generation (21GWh). Solar was ~21% (31GWh). Net hydro was ~14% (21GWh). Battery output was 0.01GWh. Source: REN

🇱🇺 Yesterday all wind was ~4% of Luxembourg electricity generation (514MWh). Solar was ~19% (2532MWh). Hydro was ~0% (61MWh). Source: SMARD

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Yesterday wind was ~14% of Great Britain electricity generation (109GWh). Solar was ~13% (95GWh). Hydro was ~1% (9GWh). Source: NESO

🇮🇹 Yesterday wind was ~7% of Italy electricity generation (56GWh). Solar was ~20% (157GWh). Net hydro was ~10% (77GWh). Geothermal was ~2% (14GWh). Source: Terna

🇫🇷 Yesterday wind was ~4% of France electricity generation (45GWh). Solar was ~14% (161.4GWh). Hydro net of pumping was ~8% (94GWh). Source: RTE

🇦🇹 Yesterday all wind was ~2% of Austria electricity generation (3GWh). Solar was ~27% (40GWh). Hydro power net of pumped was ~36% (53GWh). Source: SMARD

🇧🇪 Yesterday wind was ~2% of Belgium electricity generation (4GWh). Solar was ~26% (59GWh). Hydro was ~1% (3GWh). Battery output was 3GWh. Source: Elia

🇪🇸 Yesterday wind was ~12% of Spain electricity generation (100GWh). All solar was ~31% (266GWh). Hydro was ~7% (60GWh). Source: RedEléctrica

🇩🇪 Yesterday all wind was ~18% of Germany electricity generation (218GWh). Solar was ~40% (475GWh). Hydro power net of pumped was ~2% (30GWh). Source: SMARD

🇩🇰 Yesterday wind was ~31% of Denmark electricity generation (118.4GWh). Solar was ~35% (133.4GWh). Source: Energy-Charts.info

🇭🇺 Yesterday solar was ~38% of Hungary electricity generation (38GWh). Wind was ~0% (0GWh). Hydro was ~0% (200MWh). Geothermal was ~0% (5MWh). Source: ENTSO-E

Dominion's Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind reaches $11.7 billion and slips to end-2027 at 81 percent complete (USA) The largest US offshore wind project is absorbing tariff and interconnection costs in real time, and its...

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Monks fight ‘money-grabbing’ wind turbine plans #SCT: The head of a monastery on a Scottish island has attacked “money-grabbing” plans to build a wind farm off its coast with turbines as high as the Eiffel Tower. Father Seraphim-Oran Aldea said the MachairWind development would dwarf the nearby […]

Alternergy begins delivering power from the 128 MW Tanay wind farm to the Luzon grid (Philippines) It is the first GEA-2 award to actually reach the grid, which turns the Philippine auction programme from a paper pipeline into...

U.S. Energy Flow (wind-watch.org)

(archive: 2006) U.S. Energy Flow #USA: Chart showing all energy sources and uses in the U.S., 2002. Download original document: “U.S. Energy Flow” https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/us-energy-flow/

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Wind turbines distort the characteristic Latvian landscape: Minister of Culture Nauris Puntulis (NA) emphasizes that the impact of wind farms on the landscape of Latvia must be taken into account during their construction. He stated this after a meeting with representatives of the public benefit […]

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Wind farms need smarter, site-specific strategies to protect birds and bats #AUS: In the first comprehensive analysis of current mitigation strategies to prevent bird and bat collisions with wind turbines, researchers from Murdoch University’s Harry Butler Institute concluded there was no […]

🗽 Yesterday wind was ~1% of New York electricity generation (7GWh). Behind-the-meter solar was ~8% (37GWh). Hydro was ~15% (71GWh). Other renewable power was ~2% (10GWh). Source: GridStatus