On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 02:12:41 GMT, Janet Baraclough wrote:

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On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 17:18:28 GMT, Janet Baraclough
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In Oz they have become aware of the unsolved problem of wind farms
producing output when it can't be used and not producing output when
it is needed, just as the Danes have after both have invested a vast
amount in wind farms. UK next?

The UK has a national power grid and high population density so there
isn't any problem of UK windfarms producing surplus power that can't be
used; they just feed it into the grid.

There is exactly the same problem in UK as any where else. You can't
just feed it into the grid, it needs to be consumed.

Oz can't send the surplus from windfarms to be used elsewhere,
because of the lack of grid connections. For the same reason Denmark
also can't send surplus power (whatever way it's generated) from one
side of the country to where it's needed at the other. The UK can, which
is an advantage over both those countries on the issues you cited above.

Janet

Denmark can send and receive power from the Norway/Finland/Sweden on the
east and Germany and the rest of mainland Europe on the west. Nearly all
countries in Europe buy and sell excess power to each other regularly.

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Tim C.