Comments on: Do you know how much electricity is wind-powered in your country? http://www.ewea.org/blog/2011/08/do-you-know-how-much-electricity-is-wind-powered-in-your-country/ Breath of fresh air Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:44:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Denmark Holds Leader Position in Installed Wind Energy Capacity >> Offshore Wind http://www.ewea.org/blog/2011/08/do-you-know-how-much-electricity-is-wind-powered-in-your-country/#comment-11805 Denmark Holds Leader Position in Installed Wind Energy Capacity >> Offshore Wind Fri, 23 Sep 2011 07:55:38 +0000 http://www.ewea.org/blog/?p=2050#comment-11805 [...] By Zoë Casey (ewea) [...]

]]> By: Zoë Casey http://www.ewea.org/blog/2011/08/do-you-know-how-much-electricity-is-wind-powered-in-your-country/#comment-11707 Zoë Casey Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:01:58 +0000 http://www.ewea.org/blog/?p=2050#comment-11707 Hi Jamie,
Thanks for your comments.

The levels quoted in this story are based on what a given amount of installed capacity “would produce in a normal wind year”.

This can never be the real figure for a calendar year because some new capacity is installed in January and other new capacity in December.

Also wind varies from year to year so it can be more or less.

If we take Spain and Portugal, they have had good wind years and real figures for 2010 were more around the 18% mark than 15%.

The actual calculation used to produce the graph in this story takes the electricity that the capacity installed by the end of 2010 will produce in a normal wind year and divides it by the 2008 electricity demand, which is the latest figure from Eurostat.

Please click on the link to the Pure Power report in the story and see p.21 for further information.

]]> By: Jamie Doyle http://www.ewea.org/blog/2011/08/do-you-know-how-much-electricity-is-wind-powered-in-your-country/#comment-11692 Jamie Doyle Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:02:20 +0000 http://www.ewea.org/blog/?p=2050#comment-11692 The address of Ireland’s grid operator Eirgrid mentioned in above comment is CustomerSupport @ eirgrid.com

]]> By: Jamie Doyle http://www.ewea.org/blog/2011/08/do-you-know-how-much-electricity-is-wind-powered-in-your-country/#comment-11691 Jamie Doyle Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:59:18 +0000 http://www.ewea.org/blog/?p=2050#comment-11691 Hello
Your figure of 12.9% of electricity in Ireland coming from wind in 2010 is inaccurate. In fact due to unfavourable weather conditions the correct figure as set out by Eirgrid , the Irish grid operator, is just 10%.
The installed capacity in the Republic of Ireland is sufficient to meet a target in excess of 15% of electricity from renewables in typical wind conditions . However 2010 was an unusual year with a wind capacity factor significantly lower than the comparative figure over the previous ten years (due to weather conditions) which resulted in just 10% of electricity being generated from renewables in 2010.

As it is clearly important that the EWEA give accurate statistics, you might care to issue a correction This 10% figure can be certified by contacting Eirgrid at the follwing address CustomerSupport@eirgrid.com

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