UK Wind Drought July 2018
Introduction
July 2018 was an exceptional month for fine anti-cyclonic weather in the United Kingdom.
The result was that overall wind power capacity for the month was significantly reduced to 11.7%, less than half the normal annual capacity percentage in 2017 of 27.3%. On the other hand Solar PV power was at an maximum performance in the fine weather resulting win a capacity figure for the month of 21.2% as opposed to the annual capacity figure for 2017 of 10.3%.
https://edmhdotme.wordpress.com/uk-wind-drought-july-2018/This post outlines the detail of this significant variability which posed very significant problems to those managing the grid.
