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: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday January 21 2020, @02:39PM (7 children)
Holy cow you use a lot of power. The average US household uses 900kwh/mo. Are you refining bauxite in your backyard?
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 21 2020, @03:01PM (1 child)
It's above average but not that bad, especially considering I work from home. The average in the US south is about 40 kWh per day:
https://www.chooseenergy.com/news/article/the-states-that-use-the-most-and-least-amount-of-energy-per-household/ [chooseenergy.com]
I'd say the extra on top of the average is almost entirely due to working from home.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 21 2020, @04:57PM
I'm in California and use less than the state average--just a bit more than 12kWh/day. I'm not trying to brag though. Winter is peak usage time. That energy use doesn't consider that I'm burning through some firewood. Summer is actually low use time, because our micro-climate is so dry that we use evaporative cooling which draws very little power (but it makes my water bill go up a bit). I suspect the South has high figures because it's unbearable without refrigeration-cycle A/C. Their climate is very hot and *humid* during the Summer, so "swamp coolers" don't work.
(Score: 2) by quietus on Tuesday January 21 2020, @07:43PM (4 children)
Holy cow the average American household uses a lot of power -- my European bill comes down to 1971 kWh per year (at a price of 0.2554 euro per kWh).
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 21 2020, @09:42PM (1 child)
So do you cook at home? Running an electric oven for 1 hr per day uses that much electricity...
(Score: 2) by quietus on Wednesday January 22 2020, @07:55PM
Cooking normally on gas -- rarely use the oven for that.
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Wednesday January 22 2020, @11:06AM (1 child)
sudo mod me up
(Score: 2) by quietus on Wednesday January 22 2020, @07:42PM
Yes. Heating oil for central heating, at the moment (looking to change to scrap wood pellets, perhaps in combination with a heatpump, in future) gas for cooking -- heating your house on electricity results in ridiculous bills over here.