Wind claims highly dubious
ON reading Scottish energy journalism recently it seems the Scottish
Renewables erroneous announcement that “97.4 per cent of Scotland’s
electricity consumption [was] met by renewables in 2020″ is morphing into
“Scotland produces 97.4% of its electricity from renewables”, implying a
daily achievement.
Both statements are wrong and the public would be forgiven for believing
renewables have solved Scotland’s low-carbon energy challenges, which is a
convenient message ahead of COP 26.
In the 39 days from April 11, including throughout the last seven, UK
onshore and offshore wind generation has been in collapse for 21, which is
54% of the time and in near-collapse for at least another three: these in
addition to earlier collapses this year. Scotland was importing electricity
on all 21 days.
At midday today,Wednesday (May 19) UK wind was providing 2.3% of our needs
and Scotland was importing 1680MW, which is equivalent to 1.5 Peterhead
power stations.
During our not-infrequent periods of high atmospheric pressure Scotland is,
relatively, one of the most imports-dependent electricity users in Europe,
which situation will get worse with the decommissioning of Hunterston from
January and Torness by the end of the decade.
There might be a growing possibility of challenges emerging that some
renewables industry-funded promotional bodies may be exhibiting “suppressio
veri” ,which in contract law means suppression of the truth by the omission
or suppression of key facts?
DB Watson, Cumbernauld.
NICOLA Sturgeon has informed us that climate change and the COP26
conference in Glasgow are top priorities for her this year. Really? Climate
change is of course vitally important for us all, including Ms Sturgeon,
who’ll be dependent on Green votes to pass her budgets in Holyrood. But why
is the COP26 conference a priority for her? It’s a UK conference, organised
by Westminster and led by the Prime Minister, that happens to be taking
place in Glasgow. Considering how Ms Sturgeon daily disparaged Boris
Johnson during her election campaign, she should count herself lucky to get
an invitation.
Martin Redfern, Melrose.

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