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by kmjg88nvf8 2464 days ago
"may"

wake me when it does.

Here in Germany we have offshore wind parks that are not connected to the power grid. A lot of nonsense is going on in that area.
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Bjartr 2463 days ago
Wake up

"The auction cleared at £45/MWh (1). This means that the bids referenced in the Bloomberg story have succeeded. Bloomberg have significantly updated their story to reflect the results. In today’s good news story, we can change “may” to “will” in the headline to match the updated story :) (1) https://twitter.com/mliebreich/status/1175080738116571136?s=... "

As mentioned by daveoflynn elsewhere in these comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21028451

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Ma8ee 2464 days ago
That sounds bad. Where can I learn more about it?
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saalweachter 2464 days ago
Skimming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_Germany it sounds like there is just a perpetual lag, where offshore wind is built and then it takes awhile to get it hooked in. It's been going on since at least 2014, and since that time like 5GW of offshore wind looks to have been hooked up, so I'm not sure there's a problem beyond "things take a while to build".
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kmjg88nvf8 2464 days ago
I couldn't immediately find a good link (via Google). This one mentions unused capacity, but no further background I think https://energytransition.org/2019/02/german-offshore-wind-ca...
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rcMgD2BwE72F 2464 days ago
>Here in Germany we have offshore wind parks that are not connected to the power grid

Source (incl reason for lack of grid connection) please?

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kmjg88nvf8 2464 days ago
Can't find a good source immediately. This article mentions "276 MW of fully installed turbines far out at sea not yet feeding power to the electrical grid" https://energytransition.org/2019/02/german-offshore-wind-ca...

Sorry, maybe more googling would bring up something better. It is well known in Germany.

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Brakenshire 2464 days ago
275MW isn’t much. It’s only 30-40 turbines.
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kmjg88nvf8 2464 days ago
There is an entire wind park. Then it must be another story.

Edit: maybe it is this here: https://www.ingenieur.de/technik/fachbereiche/energie/so-win... - apparently after a couple of years, many of the generators have now finally been connected. That would be good news.

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