This dry weather is nice but…..

Holy crap it’s bad for the UK’s renewables!

Between 4 and 7pm tonight a single kWh of electricity is going to cost me > £0.80 !!!

(wind turbines are sat around doing sweet FA)

Also, what is the psychological cost of living under a sky that looks like a grey blanket?

the turbines can still turn when wet, its the lack of wind that stops them

Also, what is the psychological cost of living under a sky that looks like a grey blanket?

You’d prefer rain?

Personally I’m enjoying dry-ish midweek night rides and can’t muster too much sympathy for OP’s leccy bill.

Yesterday’s ride was 99.9% mud free. I’m happy.

can’t muster too much sympathy for OP’s leccy bill.

…. thanks

🙁

(although TBF it’s affecting everyone as it means the grid has been gas powered for the last week or so – and will be next week also)

Yesterday’s ride was 99.9% mud free. I’m happy.

I did say the dry weather was nice 😉

It’s been mizzle in the mornings of most of my commutes for the last week. Very dull. Wouldn’t mind a bit of sun.

Nothing personal mate, but as someone else asked – did you mix up rain and wind anyway?

Just me that spotted the nominative determinism of the first two posters?

Currently sitting at work, looking at 4 Gas Turbines units bollocking 1340MW into the grid. Sorry OP, but the country would be screwed without it.

At least there’s no coal contribution any longer.

@tthew

So your producing just under 4% of the UK’s electricity at the moment?

This is my 3rd year of not having to manage TRIAD season demands and its so much less stressful.

(wind turbines are sat around doing sweet FA)

There is offshore wind just not where we have any wind farms at the moment. Could do with a few more off NW Scotland and round Shetland.

I know what you mean OP, high pressure dominated system. Dry AND calm.

We need more nuclear

It’s the Azores high – i was riding around the kerry mountains in a tee-shirt last Sunday. No sun though.

The Germans have a word for it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkelflaute

There are 2–10 dunkelflaute events per year. Most of these events occur from October to February; typically 50 to 150 hours per year, a single event usually lasts up to 24 hours.

This is a bit of a problem for wind power as 24 hours of storage isn’t very practical in terms of capital cost.

It’s drizzled here everyday for what feels like forever so everything isn’t dry

At least there’s no coal contribution any longer.

Yeah but are we not transporting artificial processed wood from the other side of the world to make up for it ?

Between 4 and 7pm tonight a single kWh of electricity is going to cost me > £0.80 !!!

I’m in the same position.

The stored gas reserves must be reasonably full from a summer of little use as there hasn’t been an incentive to reduce home electricity use?

I’ve avoided using any extra electricity tho. I’ll be charging the car tomorrow morning when the cost is around 18p/kWh which is still way cheaper than petrol at 3.5p/mile.

It is oddly soupy out there and has been for a while.  We’re on our 3rd autumn with solar and batteries and we’ve never had such a sustained period of no solar yield.  We’re generating less than 2kWh a day, every day for what seems like two weeks.  That’d be low for winter never mind autumn.