David Edmonds
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 14 Jul
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If we look at March and April this year, I think we saw record low capture rates for those months for wind for each of those months.
And then boom, we look at May, we actually saw one of the highest ever capture rates in recent years against that.
So just month to month, we're seeing it move around a huge amount.
If you then layer in some of the uncertainties around where wholesale market prices might go, and not just those short-term shaping costs, but the long term
Longer term impacts of actually we could get a particularly windy or not windy season that comes up and we could see power prices having risen or fallen a long way, we can get huge costs that result from that.
And if you look back to twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two, we we saw a huge effect of that coming through.
So that's definitely a concern.
And then I suppose the biggest system wide and and how this will evolve going forward, point is thirty.
touched on is the effect of demand, also the effect of storage on this as we build those out more, and whether we're going to see a tipping point that comes through.
And certainly what we've seen in Europe in places of sudden escalation in the cannibalization effect.
If you look at German solar, for example, and suddenly capturing rates below 50% for the generation that's there.
As we bring a lot of this wind onto the system, and I think when you look at
At the UK Clean Power 2030 plans, we're talking maybe another 40 to 50 gigawatts of wind as an ambition.
And on top of that, solar as well.
Yeah, another 20 to 30 gigawatts of solar with that.
And when you look at a current summer demand where it can fall below 15 gigawatts, actually adding another 60, 70, 80 gigawatts of renewable capacity, storage can help to move.
Some of that around, but if we don't get the electricity demand increasing, it's going to become incredibly hard to manage.
And one of my worries is in two years, three years' time, might we suddenly see that cliff edge of where the value of wind power drops off massively.
Yeah, I think in terms of pricing levels of PPAs, we've not really seen that start to come through yet.
I think we tend to see people be a bit more reactive in how gets priced.
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