This sounds like great news! Can anyone that knows more than I do clarify a couple of things though? Is the 3.6GW figure for a year, day, week, per capita, etc? I couldn't find it explained in the...
This sounds like great news!
Can anyone that knows more than I do clarify a couple of things though?
Is the 3.6GW figure for a year, day, week, per capita, etc? I couldn't find it explained in the article
Is this likely to put much of a dent in the UK's electrical infrastructure?
Sure! 3.6GW is the "nameplate capacity" of the wind project, that is, if all turbines are at operational capacity at any one moment, you can expect 3.6GW of power to be being generated. In a year,...
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3.6GW is the "nameplate capacity" of the wind project, that is, if all turbines are at operational capacity at any one moment, you can expect 3.6GW of power to be being generated. In a year, this would generate 31.54TWh of energy to be exported to the grid—of course, wind farms don't operate at 100% capacity all the time. They usually run around approximately 30-50% load factor, so assuming 40%, you could expect ~12.64TWh of energy generated per year.
In more understandable terms, a full revolution of a 13MW Haliade-X wind turbine can generate enough energy to power the average UK house for about 2 days. Which is kind of crazy. Dogger Bank claims this will power 4.5 million UK homes, and supply around 5% of the U.K.'s electricity demand. Which is no small feat.
Dogger Bank is more of a wind project than an individual wind farm, and has been subdivided into a variety of sections for iterated development—so you'll see varying figures of capacities of anywhere from 1.2GW to 4.8GW depending on the scope being discussed.
This sounds like great news!
Can anyone that knows more than I do clarify a couple of things though?
Sure!
3.6GW is the "nameplate capacity" of the wind project, that is, if all turbines are at operational capacity at any one moment, you can expect 3.6GW of power to be being generated. In a year, this would generate 31.54TWh of energy to be exported to the grid—of course, wind farms don't operate at 100% capacity all the time. They usually run around approximately 30-50% load factor, so assuming 40%, you could expect ~12.64TWh of energy generated per year.
In more understandable terms, a full revolution of a 13MW Haliade-X wind turbine can generate enough energy to power the average UK house for about 2 days. Which is kind of crazy. Dogger Bank claims this will power 4.5 million UK homes, and supply around 5% of the U.K.'s electricity demand. Which is no small feat.
Dogger Bank is more of a wind project than an individual wind farm, and has been subdivided into a variety of sections for iterated development—so you'll see varying figures of capacities of anywhere from 1.2GW to 4.8GW depending on the scope being discussed.