Clean Energy Superpower Update: North Atlantic Jet Stream Avoids Basket Case Britain

Today:

One weeks time:

There’s nothing in between. The northern hemisphere jet stream steers clear of the UK (and much of northern Europe for that matter) for the next week at least. Another Dunkelflaute - though more ‘doldrums’ than ‘dark’, because we’re seeing some nice spring sunshine with the settled weather.

‘Look mum, no chemtrails!’

The UK’s shiny, new 30GW offshore and onshore wind fleet is producing just 2% of its nameplate capacity at the moment and there can’t be a lot of ‘clean’ energy generation in Europe either to send along our very expensive interconnectors with the continent. For the next week, I doubt we’ll see much more than 10-20% ‘home grown clean energy’ very briefly, even at the best of times - even allowing for solar. Pathetic. Imported gas will be doing all the heavy lifting to keep the lights on and this insane government is plugging our last viable fracking well with millions of tons of concrete to prevent the UK from exploiting its own shale gas reserves. That’s what I call industrial sabotage.

Methinks this latest wind drought is part of a trend: