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New plan to kickstart onshore wind revolution (www.gov.uk)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Schal330@lemmy.world to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

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..but is there the infrastructure to handle this? Octopus energy has recently added a ticker to the top of their website to show how much money has been wasted on turning off wind turbines.

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[–] IcePee@lemmy.beru.co 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, without the grid scale energy storage, this is little more than green washing. I think we should utilise the UK portfolio of wind turbines as close as 100% as possible before building any more.

[–] frankPodmore@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 days ago

They do address energy storage in the full plan e.g.:

The Government is therefore committed to a fundamental and urgent reform of the connections process, as set out in the Clean Power Action Plan. The Plan included connections capacity allocations for onshore wind for 2030 and 2035
The Strategic Spatial Energy Plan (SSEP) will support a more actively planned approach to energy infrastructure [...]. It will do this by assessing and identifying the optimal locations, quantities and types of energy infrastructure required for generation and storage, including onshore wind, to meet our future energy demand with the clean, affordable and secure supply that we need