A report written by Stuart Young in collaboration with Dr G. Lindsay on behalf of the Scoentific Alliance has been produced challenging the assertions made by WWF regarding wind energy power generation, and how the energy produced enough power for all of Scottish Households.

Wind Turbines alone generaetd as estimated 812,890MWh of electricity6 to the National Grid, enough to meet the electrical needs of 107% of all Scottish Households for the whole month (November) – the equivalent of 2.6 million homes.

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The claim made by WWF Scotland has been challenged in the paper ‘Examination of WWF Scotland’s Claims for Wind Generation in November 2014‘ with authors examing the patterns of wind generation and the consumer demand in November 2014;

This paper looks at the patterns of wind generation and consumer demand for November 2014 and investigates the WWF claim that wind generation met the “electrical needs” of consumers. This paper shows that while wind did indeed produce sufficient equivalent electricity in aggregate, it did not meet their needs at all times. The needs of consumers were only met by having other forms of generation available to provide the power when wind was incapable of doing so.

Of course all generating stations require to be supported by others in the event of plant failure. However, the argument frequently advanced that wind energy is no different in this respect from fossil or nuclear plant is a false one and this paper demonstrates that the weather dependent, random intermittency of wind generation presents an altogether more complex and expensive grid operating and backup challenge.

The rosy picture painted by WWF is far from the reality of any significant dependence on wind for our electricity.

The paper highlights the falsehoods of the claims made by WWF Scotland, but also provides a technical insight in the way wind energy production works, why it will never meet the needs for our energy demands, and the negative issues that wind power generation creates for our National Grid and consumers.

Download Report (PDF): Scientific-Alliance-Examination-of-WWF-Scotlands-Claims-for-Wind-Generation-Nov-2014


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