Wind Power

[Graham Breeze]

It depends whether you are considering centralised or local distributed generation.

I have 5kw cells on a roof in north west that are invisible in the sense that they cannot be seen from the road, and a big 14 kWh tesla battery in the garage. So I generate 85 percent of what I use, only dipping below in Dec and Jan. I also Generate enough to heat water by electric for six months of the summer during which my energy bills are near zero. The battery is what turns useless to useful. In those numbers we cook electric, and have a heat pump tumble drier. I will have some left over to power an electric runabout for local journeys in summer, although I am waiting for the specs to improve to buy one.

I cannot do that with wind and certainly not invisibly.

So like the feckless, the selfish, the dilettantes,...in December and January (and February) when the sun is low and the nights are long and the wind does not blow and it is cold outside you - along with virtually everyone else - expect to click a switch so the National Grid can supply all the power you desire from those nasty old power stations?