graham said:martinr said:hoehlenforscher said:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/4951236.stm
now if 140 windmills can generate enough for 200000 homes.....
Scottish Power said its £300m Whitelee project .... will generate 322 megawatts of electricity - enough to power nearly every house in Glasgow. But that is peak output. It wont generate 322 megawatts continuously. So it will only generate enough to power nearly every house in Glasgow some of the time. Trouble is, Glasgow wants elec all of the time so will need traditional power stations on permanent standby to generate the shortfall
Are you sure that was a peak & not an average figure?
http://www.scottishrenewables.com/newsitem.asp?id=106
"Europe's largest windfarm with capacity to generate 322MW of electricity"
http://www.scottishrenewables.com/facts.asp
"Over the course of a year, a typical wind farm will generate about 30 per cent of its theoretical maximum, but this rises to over 50 per cent in very windy sites in the North of Scotland. "
Last time I looked, Glasgow was not in the North of Scotland. So the £300m Whitelee project will only generate about 30 per cent of its theoretical maximum. Incidentally, scottishrenewables are in favour of the project, not in opposition to it