Soldato
I am curious why we dont have some hydro as well, we are surrounded by water.
We don’t have any natural lakes at the top of mountains or anything we could create with a dam, hence no hydro.
Some parts of the UK have a bit of hydro and capable of a lot more....
SOURCEOur hydro portfolio totals 1,459MW of installed capacity, including 300MW of pumped storage and 750MW of flexible hydro. This includes the 100MW Glendoe Power Station which opened in 2009 becoming the first large-scale hydro power station to be constructed in Scotland since the hydro revolution of the 1940s and '50s.
Nimby-ism is an issue just now. They want to install another Hydro battery system (*pumped Hydro) beside Loch Ness however the locals say it will harm the wildlife etc.
*Pumped Hydro - it will use the excess electricity generated by other renewable sources (such as wind) to pump the water up into a holding dam and then release it through the hydro turbine(s) when its needed again. This will help with things like Curtailment costs (where producers are paid to turn off the wind turbines as the grid is unable to cope with the amount be generated at specific periods).