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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday January 21 2020, @06:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the lots-of-spinning-blades dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 21 2020, @12:52PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 21 2020, @12:52PM (#946318)

    AGM lead-acid is getting close to parity, more from electricity prices rising and feed-in tariffs falling than from any improvements in batteries. Main problem is the uncertain life, If you use them hard, they die quicker.

    Tesla's Powerwall (tm) ($8000 for 7Kwh) is not sensible. It will never pay for itself.

    Last time I ran the numbers, if the batteries lasted forever you could afford to pay up to about $400 per Kwh of storage. Given the limited life of lead-acid, and having to at least double the capacity so as not to kill them, $150 per Kwh was pretty close to price parity. But that involved you taking on the risk of battery failure.

    Adjust those figures up or down a bit depending on whether you are prepared to go completely off-grid and save the connection charge as well.