Yeh. If the many larger countries were pulling the same effort the UK would be way down the list
Can’t speak for the rest of the UK but new build houses in Scotland are required to have solar panels
On wind we are indeed a powerhouse. We see the odd headline that has something like Scotland wind power produced enough for 3 Scotlands. Wish we’re were better at storing it
I think there’s a use case for hydrogen batteries there. Use surplus green power generated overnight to split water, then recombine it during high demand times. It’s not useful for vehicles, but for static facilities I don’t see why it wouldn’t work.
I’m pretty impressed, considering both our land area and population, there’s about 40x more space in the us and another 240,000 or so people. China and the US are 3rd and 4th largest respectively in terms of land, 2nd and 3rd in population and 2nd and 1st by GDP
We’re 80th and 22nd in area and people, and while we’re 6th in global GDP, that’s still 1/10th of the US’s.
I’d like the square to be bigger, but the graphic would look a lot different if it was total renewable power, renewable as a percentage of total power, or even simply wind, as being an island we lean toward wind far more than China and the US.
Maybe OP can give us those statistics as graphics?
My coment wasn’t the clearest was it. I’m over it with the UK while disappointed that much larger places don’t even show. We shouldn’t be that hard to push off the info graphic with the area constraints we have
It’s not the best weather for solar here so I’m very surprised we rank to be honest. Especially given the amount we’ve been ploughing into wind.
By 2023, the UK had over 11 thousand wind turbines with a total installed capacity of 30 gigawatts (GW): 16 GW onshore and 15 GW offshore,[5] the sixth largest capacity of any country.[6]
I’m not sure if i should be impressed or sad that the UK is on that list given how small we are in terms of population and land area.
Sad because the UK’s quite small/unsunny and that means most other countries aren’t doing much?
I thought that the UK was quite strong in wind, so it’d be interesting to see that charted.
Yeh. If the many larger countries were pulling the same effort the UK would be way down the list
Can’t speak for the rest of the UK but new build houses in Scotland are required to have solar panels
On wind we are indeed a powerhouse. We see the odd headline that has something like Scotland wind power produced enough for 3 Scotlands. Wish we’re were better at storing it
I think there’s a use case for hydrogen batteries there. Use surplus green power generated overnight to split water, then recombine it during high demand times. It’s not useful for vehicles, but for static facilities I don’t see why it wouldn’t work.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_by_country#/media/File:World_wind_generation_2021.png
But old though.
It is a map, though, unlike OP’s image!
I’m pretty impressed, considering both our land area and population, there’s about 40x more space in the us and another 240,000 or so people. China and the US are 3rd and 4th largest respectively in terms of land, 2nd and 3rd in population and 2nd and 1st by GDP
We’re 80th and 22nd in area and people, and while we’re 6th in global GDP, that’s still 1/10th of the US’s.
I’d like the square to be bigger, but the graphic would look a lot different if it was total renewable power, renewable as a percentage of total power, or even simply wind, as being an island we lean toward wind far more than China and the US. Maybe OP can give us those statistics as graphics?
My coment wasn’t the clearest was it. I’m over it with the UK while disappointed that much larger places don’t even show. We shouldn’t be that hard to push off the info graphic with the area constraints we have
It’s not the best weather for solar here so I’m very surprised we rank to be honest. Especially given the amount we’ve been ploughing into wind.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_the_United_Kingdom