United Kingdom in brief...

摘要

said Swiss pumped storage could function as Europe's battery, working in tandem with wind and solar to store intermittent output.A new wind output record was set on Saturday, January 15 when capacity in operation reached 2,383 MW at 1800 GMT, National Grid said, meeting around 5% of all UK power needs. The previous wind output record was 2,100 MW on November 7, 2010. The figure did not include wind turbines connected to the UK low- and medium-voltage electricity networks, which represent around half of all UK wind generating capacity. The UK had 283 operating wind farms with total capacity of 5,204 MW as of January 21, 2011.