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Wind energy to power UK by 2020

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イギリスは2020年までに国内全世帯の電力需要を風力で賄うことが可能になるとの見通しを示した。
海岸沿いに最大7,000基の風力タービンを設置し、全世帯の電力需要に相当する33ギガワットを発電するのだという。
海岸線を半マイルごとに、巨大な風力発電機で埋め尽くそうと言う壮大な計画だ。
33ギガワットを賄うと言う事は、例えば、国内最大級の1メガワットの発電機が33,000基必要と言うことだ。
世界最大級の5メガワット発電機だと、7,000基で計算が合う。

昨年11月、僕は風力発電の収益の中で、風力発電の問題点を指摘した。

要するに、風力発電は電力需要に関係なく、ちょうど良い風が吹けば発電され、そうでなければ発電しない。
稼働率は10%程度で計算しなくてはならない。
そう考えると、この数字はおかしいのではないだろうか?
つまり、事実上必要なものは・・・
巨大発電機が70,000基?
あるいは、東京タワーのような超巨大な発電機が7,000基?

僕は風力発電機が回る姿が好きだ。
イギリスの発表を「偽」で終わらせて欲しくはない。
今後も注目したいと思う。



Thousands of new offshore wind turbines could power every home in Britain by 2020, the government announced today, as it set out new wind-energy plans.

John Hutton, the business secretary, proposed the creation of up to 33 gigawatts of offshore wind energy at a European energy industry conference in Berlin.

He called for companies to invest in large-scale farm development to generate enough power for up to 25m homes in the next 12 years.

That would require around 7,000 turbines, or one every half-mile, Hutton told the BBC's Politics Show yesterday.

He admitted that "tough choices" would have to be made if the UK wanted to respond to climate change and become more self-sufficient.

"It is going to change our coastline, yes, for sure," he said.

"There is no way of making the shift to a low-carbon technology without there being change and for that change to be visible and evident to people.

"We've got a choice as a country about, you know, whether we rise to this challenge of change or whether we stick our head in the sand and hope it's going to go away."

The expansion will be subject to a strategic environmental assessment, which Hutton also launched today.

Currently just 2% of Britain's power comes from renewable energy sources, and wind provides less than half a gigawatt.

Hutton's proposals got cautious backing from opposition parties.

"We're an island nation - there's a lot of wind around," the shadow business secretary, Alan Duncan, told the Politics Show.

"We should use that offshore capacity for generating electricity that's clean and secure."

The Liberal Democrats' environment spokesman, Chris Huhne, welcomed a "change in tone" from the government.

But the Lib Dem leadership candidate warned: "Ministers need to pay households to install microgenerators and also invest in big schemes like the Severn Barrage which alone could generate 5% of our electricity needs."

Michael Rea, the chief executive of the Carbon Trust, also said that "cost reduction is now the name of the game".

"Offshore wind [energy generation] is set for huge growth but this will require substantial investment before it can be realised at this scale," said Rea.

John Sauven, the executive director of Greenpeace, said that the plans amounted to a "wind energy revolution" but said premium prices had to be guaranteed for clean electricity.

He also called for Labour to "drop its obsession with nuclear power".

"Hutton is proposing nothing less than a wind energy revolution, but it won't become a reality on the back of a speech," he said.

"If we are finally to exploit the massive energy resources we have available to us on this windy island, there will now need to be a revolution in thinking in Whitehall, where the energy dinosaurs have prevailed for too long."

"We need the government to guarantee premium prices for clean electricity so industry can take risks to get tens of thousands of turbines built and installed out at sea.

"And Labour needs to drop its obsession with nuclear power, which could only ever reduce emissions by about 4% at some time in the distant future."

He said Britain needed to slash its electricity emissions by 2020, "and wind power, not nuclear, should get the money and support".

"That's the test, and we wait to see what government does next," he added.

Friends of the Earth's renewable energy campaigner, Nick Rau, said: "We are delighted the government is getting serious about the potential for offshore wind, which could generate 25% of the UK's electricity by 2020.

"There is a lot more renewable energy out there – from big wave and tidal power projects to roof-mounted solar PV panels. If we make the most of these abundant resources we could generate almost half of our electricity from renewable sources by 2020.

"The government must now set out what support mechanisms it will put in place to deliver on its proposals and make the most of other renewables. It must also increase investment in the development of new renewable technology, including bigger and more efficient wind turbines."

"We should also be cooperating with our European neighbours to make the most of our shared resources, for example by developing a European super-grid or large scale wind farms in the North sea."

But the vice president of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Dr Sue Ion, said that wind power could only provide about 20% of the country's electricity to preserve grid stability.

"Laudable though the targets are, we urge government to think about the practicalities of deploying these technologies; the engineering effort to build 7,000 large offshore turbines by 2020 would be enormous, unprecedented and is probably underestimated," she said.

Ion said that the academy would be starting a new study on the engineering challenges of offshore wind projects, which would report next year.
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birdy
Commented by birdy
Posted at 2007-12-13 08:27

英文、読む根気がないわぁ。(ーー;)


わたしもあの風力発電のプロペラ、好きよ。
姿が綺麗もんね。
音がするけど…

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Mt.zaki
Commented by Mt.zaki
Posted at 2007-12-14 01:41

ブン、ブン、ブンでエアコンのエネルギーになるなら、音ぐらいは我慢できるよ。

採算が合うなら、僕も1個買いたい。
ビジネスとしては、ほとんど無理なんだもんなぁ。

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うちくら
Commented by 内倉憲一
Posted at 2007-12-13 11:33

ワシントン州では、電力会社以外の個人・会社などが発電したで電気は電力会社が、その時の売値で買い取らなければならないという法律があります。ワシントン州中〜東部では、風力発電(プロペラ)が結構見られます。

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Mt.zaki
Commented by Mt.zaki
Posted at 2007-12-14 02:05

電力会社には厳しい法律ですね。

しかし、自然エネルギーの普及には良い法律です。
風力発電量が増え、発電量予測が可能になれば、火力の出力を調整できます。
そこで初めてCO2が削減されます。

日本での余剰電力の買取は、電力会社が価格を決定しています。
これでは普及するはずもない。。。

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うちくら
Commented by 内倉憲一
Posted at 2007-12-14 06:07

ワシントン州は水力以外に原子力の利用が結構多い州なのです。ハンフォードと言うところが原子力研究のメッカということになっています。そこで日本に落とされた原爆もつくられたようです。

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Mt.zaki
Commented by Mt.zaki
Posted at 2007-12-14 23:37

技術力を平和利用するか、戦争の道具にするかは紙一重と言うことですね。

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