UK total wind generation record beaten today

martinald 46 points 28 comments March 25, 2026
renewables-map.robinhawkes.com · View on Hacker News

Discussion Highlights (8 comments)

gotwaz

Some context would make it more interesting. How much of it was used? How much does wind contribute to full day consumption?

nasretdinov

I must say it was quite windy for the last couple of days. When I say "quite windy" I mean I saw people saying they were blown off their bike :)

Sarkie

Congrats Robin.

robhawkes

Oh cool, that's my website! Let me know if you have any questions about it and I'll do my best to answer them.

ck2

meanwhile in the US https://apnews.com/article/trump-offshore-wind-energy-climat...

plodman

And yet we’re about to face an eye watering increase in bills due to the way we’re charged for energy.

turkeywelder

Love your stuff Robin. The graphs and wind turbine model are particular favourites How can we fix the curtailment problem? Storage nearer the turbines or just more transmission capacity generally? I presume we'd saturate storage pretty quickly so is it just a case of running more grid wiring from Scotland to say.. Manchester?

deterministic

Great website! It would be even more great if it compared total wind generation with total UK power usage for the same time period (with a % for wind power usage).

Semantic search powered by Rivestack pgvector
3,471 stories · 32,344 chunks indexed