That's Scotland's entire population served.

[saveasteading]

Berwick Bank wind farm in the outer Firth of Forth with up to 307 turbines generating enough electricity to power up to six million homes.

 

So that supplies all Scotlands needs when the wind is blowing. Meters on the cables to England and Scandinavia and the Holyrood budget will benefit hugely.

[ProDave]

I posted a while back that the national grid operator has declared there will be no more wind farm connections to the grid in Scotland (after the ones already scheduled for connection) until at least 2035 and that more wind farms are needed in England and Wales.

 

We just need that implemented in planning policy because planning applications are still being decided for wind farms near us.  If you try objecting on the grounds they will not get a grid connection the planners say that is not a planning matter.

 

As usual no joined up thinking.  If a grid connection is not possible, then planning should not be possible.  Unless you want a load of wind farms built and probably paid some form of compensation for not generating because they cannot get connected?

[JohnMo]

And we currently get most days supplied by wind already. 

 

The more wind farms the better for me. At least the tax payer isn't paying hand over fist for decades while generation sites are built, unlike nuclear, which then gobbles up money for the next 100 generations managing the waste and securing the site that cannot be cleaned and stays irradiated.