Quantifying CO2 savings from wind power
The graphic is from a writeup of a calculation which indicates that CO2 emissions reductions associated with wind power were 0.279 tCO2/MWh for the Irish electricity grid in 2011. Wind power met 17%…
Category: Wind Energy
Emissions savings from wind power
Recently, economist Colm McCarthy noted that: Wind generators can be relied on to produce power only about one hour in three over a year, and those productive hours are unpredictable. So conventional capacity has to…