{"id":6212,"date":"2015-01-23T11:07:35","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T11:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6212"},"modified":"2015-01-23T11:07:35","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T11:07:35","slug":"riding-along-in-my-automobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/01\/23\/riding-along-in-my-automobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Riding along in my automobile, ..."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, it was only along the M4, and Chuck Berry wasn't there singing along, but I saw something I'd not seen before - the iconic wind turbine at the Reading business park was silent, hanging limply in the still, cold air.<\/p>\n<p>That's the trouble with large high pressure systems when they sit over the country - no wind. \u00a0This was obviously happening over most of the country as the proportion of electricity coming from wind that day was ~1% of total demand. \u00a0Sadly (for wind enthusiasts) this coincided with peak winter demand (so far) of 52.5GW.<\/p>\n<p>As I write this a few days later, things are not much better with wind only contributing 0.7GW\u00a0to a total demand of 48.5GW.<\/p>\n<p>Thank goodness for all that coal which is providing 14.7GW, otherwise ... \u00a0. \u00a0However, I'll leave\u00a0the full <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/earth\/energy\/11358062\/Electricity-demand-hits-highest-this-winter-as-wind-power-slumps-to-its-lowest.html\">detail<\/a>, and any\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/earth\/energy\/11358062\/Electricity-demand-hits-highest-this-winter-as-wind-power-slumps-to-its-lowest.html\">moralising<\/a> about wind power policy, to the Telegraph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, it was only along the M4, and Chuck Berry wasn't there singing along, but I saw something I'd not seen before - the iconic wind turbine at the Reading business park was silent, hanging limply in the still, cold...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}