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30/5/2024 at 2:36am
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The UK is undoubtedly a far more windy country than a sunny one! Perhaps the reverse of much of France. I doubt that our solar farms generate very much power during dull winter days, and the further north you go the less daylight hours there are too to compound the problem!
Solar farm plans often seem to get rejected by Nimbys and planning authorities, but I can see little reason why large roofing areas of commercial and industrial buildings don't have them, well, beyond the cost vs returns argument!
I'm not sure about the 'eyesore' argument against them, I know of a few, and they are largely unnoticeable from most viewpoints, unlike wind turbines which are visible from miles around and usually from all directions! Wind turbines have a certain 'grace', but still think I prefer my views of hills and coastlines to be free of such structures!
A pal of mine has solar panels on the roof of his quite large pub complex in Devon, installed when incentives and deals made them viable, even profitable, but not sure the present arrangements would be so attractive! He's a 'supplier' of excess power to the grid in 'some' sunny summer months, but a consumer FROM the grid in winter when the daylight is poor, so as a business, solar does not make him independent of the grid, just reduces his overall annual consumption from it.
If we'd ploughed as much R and D money into tidal power as we did/do into Nuclear power, then I think we may have been following that path more! But the fact of the matter is, you still need a source of power that can be switched on 'on demand' when the highly variable 'green' sources aren't generating enough! About the only 'green' power that has truly worthwhile and cost effective 'storage' and potential to supply on demand is Hydro, but UK terrain is not best suited to that on a scale that would meet demand, and can you imagine the objections to damming and flooding a large number of valleys across the country!
A mixture of generating sources looks to be the best safeguard to meet demand with the certainty that we will never go 'dark'.
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