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142 relations: Abington, South Lanarkshire, Alternator, Ardrossan Wind Farm, Ørsted (company), Battery storage power station, Baywind Energy Co-operative, Beatrice Wind Farm, Billingham, Biofuel in the United Kingdom, Blyth Offshore Wind Farm, Capacity factor, Carno wind farm, Centrica, Climate Change Committee, Climate change in the United Kingdom, Clyde Wind Farm, Coal-fired power station, Coastline of the United Kingdom, Community wind energy, Contract for difference, Contracts for Difference (UK electricity market support), Cost of electricity by source, Cruachan Power Station, Curtailment (electricity), David Cameron, David King (chemist), Delabole, Delabole wind farm, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Dinorwig Power Station, E.ON UK, East Renfrewshire, Ecotricity, Electricity Act 1989, Electricity in Britain, Enercon, Enercon E-126, Energy in the United Kingdom, Energy policy of the United Kingdom, Energy security, Energy storage, Environmental impact of wind power, European Union, Evening Standard, Exclusive economic zone, Exergy, Ffestiniog Power Station, Firth of Forth, Friends of the Earth, Fukushima nuclear accident, ... Expand index (92 more) »
- Electric power generation in the United Kingdom
Abington, South Lanarkshire
Abington is a village in the Scottish council region of South Lanarkshire, close to the M74 motorway, marking the point where it changes name to the A74(M), following the upgrade of the former A74 road.
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Alternator
An alternator is an electrical generator that converts mechanical energy to electrical energy in the form of alternating current.
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Ardrossan Wind Farm
The 24 megawatt (MW) Ardrossan Wind Farm in Ardrossan, North Ayrshire, Scotland was officially opened on 10 August 2004.
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Ørsted (company)
Ørsted A/S (formerly DONG Energy) is a Danish multinational energy company.
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Battery storage power station
A battery storage power station, or battery energy storage system (BESS), is a type of energy storage power station that uses a group of batteries to store electrical energy.
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Baywind Energy Co-operative
Baywind Energy Co-operative was the first co-operative to own wind turbines in the United Kingdom.
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Beatrice Wind Farm
The Beatrice Offshore Wind Farm now known as Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Ltd (BOWL) project, is an offshore wind farm close to the Beatrice oil field in the Moray Firth, part of the North Sea 13 km off the north east coast of Scotland.
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Billingham
Billingham is a town and civil parish in County Durham, England.
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Biofuel in the United Kingdom
The biofuel sector in the United Kingdom, under the auspices of the government's Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO), has been progressing towards enhanced sustainable energy solutions.
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Blyth Offshore Wind Farm
Blyth Offshore Wind Farm was a small coastal wind farm located off the coast of Blyth, Northumberland, England.
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Capacity factor
The net capacity factor is the unitless ratio of actual electrical energy output over a given period of time to the theoretical maximum electrical energy output over that period.
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Carno wind farm
Carno is a wind farm of 68 turbines which started operation in October 1996.
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Centrica
Centrica plc is a British multinational energy and services company with its headquarters in Windsor, Berkshire.
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Climate Change Committee
The Climate Change Committee (CCC), originally named the Committee on Climate Change, is an independent non-departmental public body, formed under the Climate Change Act (2008) to advise the United Kingdom and devolved Governments and Parliaments on tackling and preparing for climate change.
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Climate change in the United Kingdom
Climate change is impacting the environment and human population of the United Kingdom (UK).
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Clyde Wind Farm
The Clyde Wind Farm is a 522 megawatt (MW) wind farm near Abington in South Lanarkshire, Scotland.
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Coal-fired power station
A coal-fired power station or coal power plant is a thermal power station which burns coal to generate electricity.
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Coastline of the United Kingdom
The coastline of the United Kingdom is formed by a variety of natural features including islands, bays, headlands and peninsulas.
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Community wind energy
Community wind projects are locally owned by farmers, investors, businesses, schools, utilities, or other public or private entities who utilize wind energy to support and reduce energy costs to the local community.
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Contract for difference
In finance, a contract for difference (CFD) is a legally binding agreement that creates, defines, and governs mutual rights and obligations between two parties, typically described as "buyer" and "seller", stipulating that the buyer will pay to the seller the difference between the current value of an asset and its value at contract time.
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Contracts for Difference (UK electricity market support)
Contracts for Difference (CfD) are the main market support mechanism for low carbon generation in the UK.
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Cost of electricity by source
Different methods of electricity generation can incur a variety of different costs, which can be divided into three general categories: 1) wholesale costs, or all costs paid by utilities associated with acquiring and distributing electricity to consumers, 2) retail costs paid by consumers, and 3) external costs, or externalities, imposed on society.
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Cruachan Power Station
The Cruachan Power Station (also known as the Cruachan Dam) is a pumped-storage hydroelectric power station in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK.
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Curtailment (electricity)
In electric grid power generators, curtailment is the deliberate reduction in output below what could have been produced in order to balance energy supply and demand or due to transmission constraints.
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David Cameron
David William Donald Cameron, Baron Cameron of Chipping Norton, (born 9 October 1966) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016, and as UK Foreign Secretary under Prime Minister Rishi Sunak from November 2023 to July 2024.
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David King (chemist)
Sir David Anthony King (born 12 August 1939) is a South African-born British chemist, academic, and head of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group (CCAG).
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Delabole
Delabole (Delyow Boll) is a large village and civil parish in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, which lies approximately two miles (3 km) west of Camelford.
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Delabole wind farm
The Delabole wind farm was the first commercial onshore wind farm built in the United Kingdom, in November 1991.
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Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
The Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) was a ministerial department of the United Kingdom Government, from July 2016 to February 2023.
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Dinorwig Power Station
The Dinorwig Power Station, known locally as Electric Mountain, or Mynydd Gwefru, is a pumped-storage hydroelectric scheme, near Dinorwig, Llanberis in Snowdonia national park in Gwynedd, north Wales.
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E.ON UK
E.ON UK is a British energy company and one of the largest suppliers of energy in the UK, following its acquisition of Npower.
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East Renfrewshire
East Renfrewshire (Aest Renfrewshire; Siorrachd Rinn Friù an Ear) is one of 32 council areas of Scotland.
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Ecotricity
Ecotricity is a British energy company based in Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, specialising in selling green energy to consumers that it primarily generates from its 87.2 megawatt wind power portfolio.
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Electricity Act 1989
The Electricity Act 1989 (c. 29) provided for the privatisation of the electricity supply industry in Great Britain, by replacing the Central Electricity Generating Board in England and Wales and by restructuring the South of Scotland Electricity Board and the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board.
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Electricity in Britain
The National Grid covers most of mainland Great Britain and several of the surrounding islands, and there are interconnectors to Northern Ireland and to other European countries.
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Enercon
Enercon GmbH is a wind turbine manufacturer based in Aurich, Lower Saxony, Germany.
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Enercon E-126
The Enercon E-126 is an onshore wind turbine model manufactured by the German company Enercon.
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Energy in the United Kingdom
Energy in the United Kingdom came mostly from fossil fuels in 2021.
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Energy policy of the United Kingdom
The energy policy of the United Kingdom refers to the United Kingdom's efforts towards reducing energy intensity, reducing energy poverty, and maintaining energy supply reliability.
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Energy security
Energy security is the association between national security and the availability of natural resources for energy consumption (as opposed to household energy insecurity).
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Energy storage
Energy storage is the capture of energy produced at one time for use at a later time to reduce imbalances between energy demand and energy production.
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Environmental impact of wind power
The environmental impact of electricity generation from wind power is minor when compared to that of fossil fuel power.
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European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.
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Evening Standard
The Evening Standard, formerly The Standard (1827–1904), is a long-established newspaper, since 2009 a local free newspaper in tabloid format, with a website on the Internet, published in London, England.
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Exclusive economic zone
An exclusive economic zone (EEZ), as prescribed by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is an area of the sea in which a sovereign state has exclusive rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind.
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Exergy
Exergy, often referred to as "available energy" or "useful work potential", is a fundamental concept in the field of thermodynamics and engineering.
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Ffestiniog Power Station
The Ffestiniog Power Station is a 360-megawatt (MW) pumped-storage hydroelectricity scheme near Ffestiniog, in Gwynedd, north-west Wales.
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Firth of Forth
The Firth of Forth is the estuary, or firth, of several Scottish rivers including the River Forth.
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Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) is an international network of grassroots environmental organizations in 73 countries.
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Fukushima nuclear accident
The Fukushima nuclear accident was a major nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima, Japan which began on 11 March 2011.
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Geothermal power in the United Kingdom
The potential for exploiting geothermal energy in the United Kingdom on a commercial basis was initially examined by the Department of Energy in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis.
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Good Energy
Good Energy Group PLC is a British energy company based in Chippenham, Wiltshire that provides services in the electrification of transport and decentralised renewable energy generation such as domestic solar panels.
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Government of the United Kingdom
The Government of the United Kingdom (formally His Majesty's Government, abbreviated to HM Government) is the central executive authority of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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Green electricity in the United Kingdom
The availability and uptake of green electricity in the United Kingdom has increased in the 21st century.
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Gunfleet Sands Offshore Wind Farm
Gunfleet Sands Offshore Wind Farm is a 172 MW wind farm about off the Clacton-on-Sea coast in the Northern Thames Estuary.
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Gwynt y Môr
italic is a 576-megawatt (MW) offshore wind farm located off the coast of north Wales and is the fifth largest operating offshore windfarm in the world.
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Hadyard Hill Wind Farm
Hadyard Hill Wind Farm is located in Carrick district of South Ayrshire.
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Haverton Hill
Haverton Hill is an area within the borough of Stockton-on-Tees and ceremonial county of County Durham, England.
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Hornsea Wind Farm
Hornsea Wind Farm is a Round 3 wind farm which began construction in 2018.
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House of Lords
The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Household energy insecurity
Household energy insecurity refers to a household's inability to meet its energy needs.
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Humber Gateway Wind Farm
Humber Gateway Wind Farm is an offshore wind farm east of Spurn Point off the coast of North East Lincolnshire, in the North Sea, England; the wind farm is located in water depths around and covers an area of approximately.
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Hydroelectricity in the United Kingdom
, hydroelectric power stations in the United Kingdom accounted for 1.87GW of installed electrical generating capacity, being 2.2% of the UK's total generating capacity and 4.2% of UK's renewable energy generating capacity.
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Hywind Scotland
Hywind Scotland is the world's first commercial wind farm using floating wind turbines, situated off Peterhead, Scotland.
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Isle of Arran
The Isle of Arran (Eilean Arainn) or simply Arran is an island off the west coast of Scotland.
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James Blyth (engineer)
Professor James Blyth MA, LLD, FRSE FRSSA (4 April 1839 – 15 May 1906) was a Scottish electrical engineer and academic at Anderson's College, now the University of Strathclyde, in Glasgow.
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John Brown & Company
John Brown and Company of Clydebank was a Scottish marine engineering and shipbuilding firm.
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Kent
Kent is a county in the South East England region, the closest county to continental Europe.
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Kingston upon Hull
Kingston upon Hull, usually shortened to Hull, is a port city and unitary authority area in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
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Levelized cost of electricity
The levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) is a measure of the average net present cost of electricity generation for a generator over its lifetime.
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List of renewable energy topics by country and territory
This is a list of renewable energy topics by country and territory.
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List of Special Protection Areas in Scotland
This is a list of Special Protection Areas (SPAs) in Scotland.
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List of wind turbine manufacturers
This is a list of notable wind turbine manufacturers and businesses that manufacture major wind turbine components.
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Lists of wind farms
Lists of wind farms include.
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London Array
The London Array is a 175-turbine 630 MW Round 2 offshore wind farm located off the Kent coast in the outer Thames Estuary in the United Kingdom.
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Marykirk
Marykirk (Obar Luathnait) is a village in the Kincardine and Mearns area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, next to the border with Angus at the River North Esk.
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Moray East Wind Farm
Moray East Wind Farm is an offshore wind farm located in the Moray Firth off the coast of Scotland.
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Moray Firth
The Moray Firth (An Cuan Moireach, Linne Mhoireibh or Caolas Mhoireibh) is a roughly triangular inlet (or firth) of the North Sea, north and east of Inverness, which is in the Highland council area of the north of Scotland.
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Mott MacDonald
The Mott MacDonald Group is a management, engineering and development consultancy headquartered in the United Kingdom.
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National Grid (Great Britain)
The National Grid is the high-voltage electric power transmission network serving Great Britain, connecting power stations and major substations, and ensuring that electricity generated anywhere on the grid can be used to satisfy demand elsewhere.
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National Grid plc
National Grid plc is a British multinational electricity and gas utility company headquartered in London, England.
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Nick Clegg
Sir Nicholas William Peter Clegg (born 7 January 1967) is a British retired politician and media executive who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2015 and as Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2007 to 2015.
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Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation
The Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation (NFFO) refers to a collection of orders requiring the electricity distribution network operators in England and Wales to purchase electricity from the nuclear power and renewable energy sectors.
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Npower (United Kingdom)
Npower Limited was a British supplier of gas and electricity to businesses.
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Nuclear power in the United Kingdom
Nuclear power in the United Kingdom generated 16.1% of the country's electricity in 2020.
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Offshore Structures (Britain) Ltd.
Offshore Structures (Britain) Ltd. is a marine offshore structure foundation manufacture based at Haverton Hill near Billingham on the north bank of the River Tees.
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Offshore wind power
Offshore wind power or offshore wind energy is the generation of electricity through wind farms in bodies of water, usually at sea.
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Offshore wind power in the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom became the world leader of offshore wind power generation in October 2008 when it overtook Denmark.
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Oil and gas industry in the United Kingdom
The oil and gas industry plays a central role in the economy of the United Kingdom.
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Orkney
Orkney (Orkney; Orkneyjar; Orknøjar), also known as the Orkney Islands (archaically "The Orkneys"), is an archipelago off the north coast of Scotland.
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Peterhead
Peterhead (Ceann Phàdraig, Peterheid) is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
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Planning permission
Planning permission or building permit refers to the approval needed for construction or expansion (including significant renovation), and sometimes for demolition, in some jurisdictions.
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Port of Hull
The Port of Hull is a port at the confluence of the River Hull and the Humber Estuary in Kingston upon Hull, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
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Possible (charity)
Possible (which changed its name from 10:10 Climate Action in October 2019) is a charity that enables people to take practical action on climate change, and combines these local actions to inspire a more ambitious approach to the issue at every level of society.
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Premiership of Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson's tenure as prime minister of the United Kingdom began on 24 July 2019 when he accepted an invitation of Queen Elizabeth II to form a government, succeeding Theresa May, and ended on 6 September 2022 upon his resignation.
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Primary energy
Primary energy (PE) is the energy found in nature that has not been subjected to any human engineered conversion process.
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Pumped-storage hydroelectricity
Pumped-storage hydroelectricity (PSH), or pumped hydroelectric energy storage (PHES), is a type of hydroelectric energy storage used by electric power systems for load balancing.
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Radar
Radar is a system that uses radio waves to determine the distance (ranging), direction (azimuth and elevation angles), and radial velocity of objects relative to the site.
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REG WindPower
REG WindPower is a renewable energy company, in the United Kingdom.
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Renewable Electricity and the Grid
Renewable Electricity and the Grid: The Challenge of Variability is a 2007 book edited by Godfrey Boyle which examines the significance of the issue of variability of renewable energy supplies in the electricity grid.
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Renewable energy
Renewable energy (or green energy) is energy from renewable natural resources that are replenished on a human timescale.
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Renewable Energy Directive 2018
The Renewable Energy Directive 2018 is a Directive in EU law that requires 42.5 percent of the energy consumed within the European Union to be renewable by 2030.
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Renewable energy in Scotland
The production of renewable energy in Scotland is a topic that came to the fore in technical, economic, and political terms during the opening years of the 21st century.
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Renewable energy in the European Union
Renewable energy progress in the European Union (EU) is driven by the European Commission's 2023 revision of the Renewable Energy Directive, which raises the EU's binding renewable energy target for 2030 to at least 42.5%, up from the previous target of 32%.
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Renewable energy in the United Kingdom
Renewable energy in the United Kingdom contributes to production for electricity, heat, and transport.
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Renewable fuels
Renewable fuels are fuels produced from renewable resources.
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Renewable heat
Renewable heat is an application of renewable energy referring to the generation of heat from renewable sources; for example, feeding radiators with water warmed by focused solar radiation rather than by a fossil fuel boiler.
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Renewables Obligation (United Kingdom)
The Renewables Obligation (RO) was designed to encourage generation of electricity from eligible renewable sources in the United Kingdom.
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Robin Rigg Wind Farm
Robin Rigg Wind Farm, Scotland's first offshore wind farm, was constructed by E.ON at Robin Rigg in the Solway Firth, a sandbank midway between the Galloway and Cumbrian coasts.
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Scotland
Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Scottish Government
The Scottish Government (Riaghaltas na h-Alba) is the devolved government of Scotland.
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ScottishPower
Scottish Power Limited, trading as ScottishPower, is a vertically integrated energy company based in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Scout Moor Wind Farm
Scout Moor Wind Farm is the second largest onshore wind farm in England.
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Siemens
Siemens AG is a German multinational technology conglomerate.
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Slieve Rushen Wind Farm
Slieve Rushen Wind Farm is an 18-turbine wind farm in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, with a total capacity of 54 MW, enough to power over 30,000 homes.
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Small modular reactor
Small modular reactors (SMRs) are a class of small nuclear fission reactors, designed to be built in a factory, shipped to operational sites for installation and then used to power buildings or other commercial operations.
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Smart grid
The smart grid is an enhancement of the 20th century electrical grid, using two-way communications and distributed so-called intelligent devices.
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Solar power in the United Kingdom
Solar power has a small but growing role in electricity production in the United Kingdom.
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Solway Firth
The Solway Firth is an inlet on the west coast of Great Britain, forming part of the border between England and Scotland.
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SSE plc
SSE plc (formerly Scottish and Southern Energy plc) is a multinational energy company headquartered in Perth, Scotland.
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Strike price
In finance, the strike price (or exercise price) of an option is a fixed price at which the owner of the option can buy (in the case of a call), or sell (in the case of a put), the underlying security or commodity.
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Talisman Energy
Talisman Energy Inc. was a Canadian independent petroleum company that existed between 1993 and 2015.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Independent
The Independent is a British online newspaper.
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The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.
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Triton Knoll
Triton Knoll Wind Farm is an 857 MW round 2 offshore wind farm off the coast of Lincolnshire, in the North Sea, England.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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United Kingdom Climate Change Programme
The United Kingdom's Climate Change Programme was launched in November 2000 by the British government in response to its commitment agreed at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED).
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United Kingdom National Renewable Energy Action Plan
The United Kingdom National Renewable Energy Action Plan was the National Renewable Energy Action Plan (NREAP) for the United Kingdom in the 2010s.
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Vattenfall
Vattenfall is a Swedish multinational power company owned by the Swedish state.
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Walney Wind Farm
Walney Wind Farms are a group of offshore wind farms west of Walney Island off the coast of Cumbria, England, in the Irish Sea.
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Watt
The watt (symbol: W) is the unit of power or radiant flux in the International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−3.
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Westermost Rough Wind Farm
Westermost Rough Wind Farm is an offshore wind farm north east of Withernsea off the Holderness coast, in the North Sea, England.
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Westmill Wind Farm Co-operative
Westmill Wind Farm Co-operative Ltd is a community-owned Industrial and Provident Society that owns 100% of the Westmill Wind Farm which is an onshore wind farm near the village of Watchfield in the Vale of White Horse, England.
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Whitelee Wind Farm
Whitelee Wind Farm is a windfarm on the Eaglesham moor in Scotland.
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Wind farm
A wind farm or wind park, also called a wind power station or wind power plant, is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electricity.
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Wind power
Wind power is the use of wind energy to generate useful work.
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Wind power by country
The worldwide total cumulative installed electricity generation capacity from wind power has increased rapidly since the start of the third millennium, and as of the end of 2022, it amounts to almost 900 GW.
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Wind power in Denmark
Denmark was a pioneer in developing commercial wind power during the 1970s, and today a substantial share of the wind turbines around the world are produced by Danish manufacturers such as Vestasthe world's largest wind-turbine manufactureralong with many component suppliers.
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Wind power in Scotland
Wind power is the fastest-growing renewable energy technology in Scotland, with 11,482 megawatts (MW) of installed wind power capacity by Q1 2023.
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Wind turbine
A wind turbine is a device that converts the kinetic energy of wind into electrical energy.
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2021 United Kingdom natural gas supplier crisis
Starting from August 2021, high European wholesale natural gas prices started severely impacting the United Kingdom.
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See also
Electric power generation in the United Kingdom
- British Energy
- Central Electricity Generating Board
- Dash for Gas
- Electricity in Britain
- Hydroelectricity in the United Kingdom
- List of active coal-fired power stations in the United Kingdom
- List of active natural gas power stations in the United Kingdom
- National Power
- Nuclear Electric
- Nuclear power in the United Kingdom
- Solar power in the United Kingdom
- Wind power in the United Kingdom
References
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