Too Much Wind and Too Much Sun
June 13, 2026
tags: Electricity
By Paul Homewood
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/06/11/stop-building-wind-farms-edf-boss-urges-miliband/Just returning to the EDF boss’ appeal to stop building wind farms because the country has too much electricity, yesterday’s generation mix shows exactly why he is right.
https://www.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/# There were times during the day when wind, solar and nuclear were supplying nearly all of the demand. (The gap between demand, the blue line, and generation is made up of imported electricity).
But fast forward to 2030, by when Miliband plans to have three times as much wind and solar capacity, and it does not take a genius to work out that the grid will be swamped with surplus power.
At peak generation around midday, we would have more than 70 GW of wind, solar and nuclear power, none of which we can simply switch on and off. Demand meanwhile would be 30 GW.
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