Winds farms set new record by generating 17% of the country’s electricity supply http://www.energy-broker.co.uk/winds-farms-set-new-record-by-generating-17-of-the-countrys-electricity-supply/

Love them or hate them, wind farms have become a part of our landscape. And our energy supply chain.

The next time someone moans about wind farms being useless, think on this – last month, wind power supplied 10% of Britain’s total electricity demand. Yep, that’s quite a significant chunk.

To put it into perspective – that’s around 5.7 million homes in Britain that could have been powered by much-decried wind farms.

But December was a record-breaking month all-round. Over the course of one week, wind power generated 13% of Britain’s total electricity demand. And on one spectacularly unusual day – the Saturday before Christmas – 17% of the nation’s total electricity demand was produced from wind power, smashing previous records.

The wind power is generated from 5,282 turbines, of which 4,207 are onshore and 1,075 offshore.

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Winds farms set new record by generating 17% of the country’s electricity supply