Wind Power: Facts & Figures

[energy]

Have a look a the wind speed map for Ireland

Installed capacity of WPG has grown on average by 41% per annum over the five year period from 2002 to 2006. There was a 7.5% increase in 2007. It is worth noting that the average capacity factor achieved has fallen over that period as illustrated in Figure 4-7. This downward trend may be caused by the development of less favourable wind regime sites in recent years, the best sites having been developed first.

Source: http://www.eirgrid.com/media/GAR%202009-2015.pdf

[Pat Gill]

Lie, lie lie.

Fact, fact, fact.

Let's see the exact same numbers you opsted for France, Switzerland and Japan.

Total energy usage, total energy imports, etc.


Come on,

What did your last servant die from dearest, the figures for France are, total energy consumption 273.1 mtoe, net imports 141.7 mtoe giving an import dependency figure of 51.4%. You can source the figures for Switzerland and Japan here and do your unit conversions from btu to mtoe here

But remember that the causal relationship between import dependency and prosperity or lack thereof is based on how the countries economy interacts with the energy industry.

Further your assertion that these countries, France, Switzerland and Japan have an equal or higher energy import dependency than Ireland is quaint for example Japan is both an oil and natural gas producer, Japan's largest natural gas field is the Minami-Nagaoka on the western coast of Honshu, which supplied about 50 percent of Japan's domestic gas before the Fukushima disaster in 2010 forced imports to increase to make up the nuclear shortfall and many of these imports actually come from Japanese owned fields such as the Mimia Project in Australia's Browse Basin which is 60% owned by INPEX.

Oh did I mention that the Japanese government is the largest shareholder in INPEX. So in essence Japan imports a lot of its hydrocarbons from itself Thats a little different to Ireland you must admit.

What a lying twat.

Au contraire amigo, I am a factual twat who left his handbag somewhere years ago.

[Pat Gill]

This thread was set up to discuss wind energy. If you can't stick to the topic then please refrain from posting.

But Sir, what about Aarhus, freedom of information and all ?

You can't beat the economics of it:


China builds biggest thermal power plant | News24

You did read all of your link I suppose ?

Shenhua and the Guangxi government will ensure the new plant's eight power generators get a steady supply of coal from company mines in Indonesia and Australia by building four 100 000-ton deepwater loading docks, Xinhua said.

Beihai city will also build a coal storage facility capable of handling 30 million tons a year in the nearby port of Tieshan.

Add those capital costs to those of the new plant ? Or maybe you could count them as subsidies ??

You most certainly cannot beat the economics.

Bloomberg New Energy Finance finds that the trillionth dollar has been invested in clean energy since its records began

"The trillionth-dollar milestone shows that the world is not waiting for a deal on climate in order to start turning the super-tanker away from fossil fuels,” said Bloomberg New Energy Finance chief executive Michael Liebreich. “It should serve as a message to the UN and all those in Durban to stop obsessing about a binding deal to cap carbon emissions, and to think much harder about how to speed up investment in the solutions. Another five years of investment growth at the same compound rates, and the world will have broken the back of emissions growth.”

As capital costs for wind, solar, geothermal, marine, hydro and bioenergy continue to fall, and as energy smart technologies remake the world's grids, clean energy investment flows are expected to maintain their long-term rise, supported by a network of policies and initiatives around the world.

Clean energy attracts its trillionth dollar | Bloomberg New Energy Finance

Market signals and all that claptrap eh Tombo

I apologise for not giving you a Christmas present.

But may I be the first to wish you a Happy and Prosperous 2012 with the following gift.

It is expected that the production cost of landbased wind power will have fallen to a level roughly equal to coal by 2020, after which time it is expected to be cheaper. If external environmental costs are included as well as transmission costs, it
is still expected to be cheaper. Consequently, from this point in time wind power incentives should
be directed solely towards offshore wind, which in 2020 will be seeing large-scale deployment.

http://www.iea.org/papers/roadmaps/china_wind.pdf