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The Guardian's source is the the Energy and Sustainability Statement submitted in support of the planning application. For some reason it has used a Grid Electricity CO2 Coefficient of 0.233 kg/kwh which is matches Defra's 2020 GHG Conversion Factor. In their 2024 report this had reduced to 0.207 kg...

UK Allocation Rounds 2 and 3 CfDs don't make difference payments if day ahead prices are negative for more than 6 hours. From AR4 onwards, difference payments are not made for any hour of negative pricing.

Vague NESO article published on Friday: https://www.neso.energy/news/preparing-way-clean-power-2030 Rather more useful is their Operability Strategy Report 2025 also published this month at https://www.neso.energy/document/358116/download Page 8 has an update on their Zero Carbon Operation (ZCO) by ...

Only generators connected to the transmission system (large thermal plants, offshore wind farms, and more recently large solar farms) are directly reported in grid generation figures. Generators connected to the distribution network (smaller onshore wind farms, most solar farms and other embedded ge...

Another wind record notification from NESO this morning: 22.523 GW on 18 December 2024.

dan_b wrote: ↑Mon Dec 16, 2024 1:28 pm Not officially recognized by NESO - at least not yet - they're still saying record wind was 21st Dec 2023 with 21.813GW

Notification from the NESO app now declaring a new record yesterday of 22.243 GW.

GarethC wrote: ↑Fri Oct 18, 2024 5:46 pm Must be quite small turbines by latest standards. 9MW?

It's an old project with a troubled history. Was granted a CfD in Allocation Round 1 back in 2015 with a targeted commissioning date of 2019. Delays to construction starting then hit by supply chain issues and covid-19.

Jeremy Wade visited Chernobyl in River Monsters:

One point I picked up on was that having the Crown Estate put money in (from surplus which would otherwise go to the exchequer) it doesn't count as government / public spending! I have no problem at all with public spending, especially for investment, but if this means that we can invest but avoid ...

Moxi wrote: ↑Thu Jul 25, 2024 3:11 pm It makes a change for such things to be based outside of London

Moxi

Green Investment Bank was set up in Edinburgh and still has a major presence there as part of Macquire's Green Investment Group now.