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Renewable energy statistics just keep topping each other. Solar power is getting cheaper. Battery storage capacity is getting better. And wind farms are getting bigger.
2019 saw the world’s biggest (at the time) offshore wind farm come online, as well as construction of the biggest offshore wind farm in the US off the coast of Atlantic City.
But a new figure blows all of these out of the water. Last week, British renewable energy developer SSE announced construction of Dogger Bank Wind Farm off the eastern coast of England in the North Sea.
With a capacity of 3.6 gigawatts (GW), Dogger Bank will be three times bigger than the world’s biggest existing wind farm, the nearby 1.2 GW Hornsea One.
Located near a seaside town called Ulrome, which is 195 miles north of London, Dogger Bank will have three separate sites—Creyke Beck A, Creyke Beck B, and Teesside A—each with a 1.2 GW capacity, and construction is slated to take two years.
The project is a collaboration between SSE and Equinor, a Norwegian energy company.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 21 2020, @12:41PM
A family of 4 in a detached house with electric heating (water heat pump) in cold, cold Canada, is about 20,000kWh/year. That gives you 55kWh/day. If only using air heat pump for heating, that would be most likely closer to 75kWh/day.
And yes, it's possible to augment your heating with thermal solar panels heating your concrete basement (heat store) during winter. But when it's -30C outside, you need to heat your house one way or another. And burning wood is not something allowed if you live in a city.