By Paul Homewood

There’s a good article on TCW about the giant new solar farm proposed in Cambridgeshire:

Storm clouds ahead down on the solar farm

We are naturally all familiar with the intermittency of solar power in terms of seasonal and day/night. But Julian Flood also raises the issue of reduced generation during cloudy or foggy weather.

I have heard this idea pooh poohed by renewable enthusiasts, who argue that it makes little difference – something about photons apparently!

However a look at this weeks solar power data shows this is nonsense.

https://www.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/#

The last three days have been sunny, but Monday and Tuesday were rather dull, though certainly not foggy here.

As a result of solar power, which peaked at over 4 GW Wednesday to Friday, did not even reach 1 GW on Monday.

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JANUARY 15, 2022

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