Wind output and curtailment in Scotland during Storm Floris

Experimenting with the styling of the wind particles as well as the colour ramp for the wind speed layer.

Kinda loving how much detail you can see now from the Meteomatics EURO1k weather model

A zoomed in view of wind farm curtailment in Scotland during Storm Floris…

The yellow rings are showing the curtailed volume at each wind farm as a proportion of their installed capacity.

Experimenting with adding gas power plants on the map so you can see turn-up in the south in response to wind curtailment in the north.

The red rings show gas turn-up scaled to the capacity of each power plant. I'm currently showing all gas offers so it still needs work.

Switching off wind farms on July 4th lost 113,831MWh of clean energy, only to replace it with gas.

The map shows how much wind farms were curtailed that day alongside boundary capacity:

🟢 Spare cap. at boundary
🟠 Close to limit (poss. constrained)
🔴 At limit (constrained)

Experimenting with showing transmission boundaries on my renewables map, colour-coded based on forecast flow limits (red = boundary at limit)

This is critical context for understanding the reason why wind farms are often switched off in Scotland, even when it's windy

Generation and curtailment at British wind farms during Storm Éowyn earlier this year 🌬️⚡

Notice the wind farms in Scotland turning off as the storm passes due to very high wind speeds and transmission constraints

You can see live and historic generation on the map:
renewables-map.robinhawkes.com

The new wind farms doing their thing…

Well, aside from Moray West which was 100% curtailed at the time I recorded the animation 🫠

More on wake effect parameterisation in the EURO1k model

www.meteomatics.com/en/news/prod...

I still can't get over the resolution of the @meteomatics.com wind data, I swear you can see the wake effects from Gwynt-y-Mor in this example 🤯

Their EURO1k model supports wake effects, so it's definitely possible…

I'm experimenting with @meteomatics.com high-res weather data on my live renewables map to replace the low-res GFS data that I've used up to now.

The difference is incredible… 🤯