‘Dunkelflaute’ must surely be an early contender for the 2025 Oxford Dictionary word of the year. A German word meaning ‘dark doldrums’, it is used in the energy world to describe a dark, cold, calm spell of weather during which very little energy can be generated with wind or solar power. In December and January, Britain faced two spells of [...] The post Wind droughts show the need for low-carbon flexible generation first appeared on Electric Insights.
