[physicsguy]

The curtailment periods in the UK are already a problem, particularly in Scotland where there is now not enough grid capacity. There's no point building massive farms up there now without corresponding National Grid investment, which isn't happening anywhere near fast enough.

[Mvandenbergh]

There's a huge amount of North-South capacity being built as part of the holistic network design programme which will unlock a lot of capacity and substantially reduce curtailment.

[happymellon]

I don't remember where I saw it previously, it could have been here, but Octopus is looking to fix this.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/01/25/octopus-buil...

It does make me wonder why the National Grid can't keep up. We can all see how BT has a massive conflict of interest with OpenReach, which is why AltNets are thriving. But what's stopping National Grid?

[physicsguy]

Octopus don't have deep enough pockets to do that really. They're still making a loss despite the hype they get.

[pjc50]

Locals hate pylons. As do Tory MPs. I guess Octopus are just willing to push harder on the planning permission system.

[deepnet]

This is very interesting can you link somedata sources for funding and capacity ?

Your insightful comment is much appreciated.

Many thanks for sharing your research

[physicsguy]

https://news.yahoo.com/wasted-wind-power-could-add-151805433...

https://www.thenational.scot/news/23532508.wind-farm-curtail...

[kitd]

https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/projects/eastern-hvdc-link/