So a vast improvement over last year.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/sep/03/renewable-energy-auction-windfarms-tidal-power

Vast improvements but could do better.

 

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However, Tuesday’s auction secured only half the offshore wind capacity needed every year for the rest of this decade if the government hopes to meet its green energy targets. Almost two-thirds of the new offshore wind capacity that was eligible to bid in the auction failed to bid low enough to secure a contract.

Tom Glover, the chief executive of RWE’s UK business, which missed out on an offshore wind contract, said: “It is a little disappointing in the context of the government’s targets that only 30% of eligible new projects won – but this shows how competitive the auction was, which is a good thing for the consumer.

“It means the government will now need to work harder to get more offshore windfarms away in future auctions if it wants to achieve its goal of quadrupling offshore wind capacity to 60GW by 2030.”"

 

I suspect part of the problem in GB is the rampant nimbyism that forces turbines off shore where generation costs are twice per KWh than onshore wind.

Here in Ireland there seems far greater acceptance of turbines. 

Only about 2% of Irish wind generation is off-shore compared to about 50% for GB.  Its ridiculous.

Edited September 3, 20242 yr by Mr Blobby