WAG - Windfarm Action Group - the growing blight on the good earth ☯
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Links to relevant articles in New Scientist Magazine March 30th 2011 The Sun is Our Only Truly Renewable Energy Source Wind and wave energies are not renewable after all ...... |
The Variability of Wind Power
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Paul-Frederik BachPaul-Frederik Bach worked with grid and generation planning at ELSAM the west Danish power station operator, until 1997, and then as Planning Director at Eltra, the Transmission System Operation, with special responsibility for integrating wind generation. He is one of Europe's leading grid engineers, and is still active in advising the Danish government on the direction of its policy. |
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The Economics of Renewable Energy - Economic Affairs Committee
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Professor Michael Arthur Laughton is Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering at Queen Mary, University of London.
As a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Laughton is currently the UK representative on the Energy Committee of the European Council of Applied Sciences and Engineering (EuroCASE), a member of the energy and environment policy advisory groups of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Society and the Institution of Electrical Engineers, as well as the Power Industry Division Board of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.He has acted as Specialist Adviser to UK Parliamentary Committees in both upper and lower Houses on alternative and renewable energy technologies and on energy efficiency.
Professor Michael Arthur Laughton is Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering at Queen Mary, University of London.
As a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Laughton is currently the UK representative on the Energy Committee of the European Council of Applied Sciences and Engineering (EuroCASE), a member of the energy and environment policy advisory groups of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Society and the Institution of Electrical Engineers, as well as the Power Industry Division Board of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.He has acted as Specialist Adviser to UK Parliamentary Committees in both upper and lower Houses on alternative and renewable energy technologies and on energy efficiency.
The Economics of Renewable Energy - Economic Affairs Committee
Memorandum by Professor Michael Laughton
1. INTRODUCTION
Energy from renewable sources would result in significant increases to the present electricity supply cost levels. This submission seeks to explain and to quantify factors underlying these circumstances from a power systems engineering perspective. The feasible cost limits for consumers are not addressed. Instead the focus here is on the costs arising from maintaining power supply security, ie "Keeping the lights on".
LINK TO HIS FULL SUBMISSION TO THE ECONOMIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
1. INTRODUCTION
Energy from renewable sources would result in significant increases to the present electricity supply cost levels. This submission seeks to explain and to quantify factors underlying these circumstances from a power systems engineering perspective. The feasible cost limits for consumers are not addressed. Instead the focus here is on the costs arising from maintaining power supply security, ie "Keeping the lights on".
LINK TO HIS FULL SUBMISSION TO THE ECONOMIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
