An Open Letter to Sir Keir Starmer
The next Labour Government are in a rush to get to get clean energy by 2030. Due to the last Conservative Government there are few onshore wind turbines in the UK, but their planning permission allows them to be made taller to take bigger blades, and if we add the maximum height allowed by the planning permission we can approximately triple the amount of electricity generated. And of course the infrastructure is already built so we can triple onshore wind turbine electricity in months. This is a win win as infrastructure takes a long time to put in, and at great expense. Great British Energy can hit the ground running by picking the lowest hanging fruit. Octopus Energy is already buying up 10% of our onshore wind turbines to heighten our onshore wind turbines, and we can do the other 90% by paying the owners to do the work, or nationalizing them.
By way of example:
Onshore wind accounting for 11% of electricity generated in UK in 2020. Total supply of electricity in the UK in 2019 346 TWh. Thus 38 TWh is generated by onshore approximately and 95 TWh in 2020 from gas turbines. The UK has 32 gas power stations, each generating an average of 2.96875 Twh each. By tripling energy produced by onshore wind turbines by increasing their height would generate 38*3= 114TWh. This is an extra 76 TWh extra clean energy a year. This is 79/2.96875 or 29.6 polluting gas power stations shut down. How about shutting Drax power station too?
Yours faithfully
Andy Kadir-Buxton
'RedRoseAndy'
•
•
28 w
This is a potential advantage..taller turbines can generate more energy due to higher wind speeds at greater heights, helping to compensate for the lower number of installations.