Wind Power

(asked on 26th January 2017) - View Source
Questioner
Lord Browne of Belmont Portrait
Lord Browne of Belmont
(Democratic Unionist Party - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their estimate of the amount of electricity generated by onshore wind farms in each of the last six months.

Answered by
Lord Prior of Brampton Portrait
Lord Prior of Brampton
This question was answered on 9th February 2017

Monthly generation estimates are not available; however, the latest available quarterly estimates are published in Energy Trends table 6.1:

UK electricity generation from onshore wind, Apr-Jun 2016 and Jul-Sep 2016(1)(2)

GWh

2016 Q2 (Apr-Jun)

2016 Q3 (Jul-Sep)

Onshore Wind electricity generation

4,028

4,566

Source: Energy Trends 6.1, December 2016, available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/energy-trends-section-6-renewables

(1) Generation figures for the latest quarter are provisional.

(2) Actual generation figures are given where available. Otherwise they are estimated using a typical load factor or the design load factor, where known. Generation from Feed-in Tariff schemes is estimated this way.

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