BBC News – Wind farms outstrip nuclear power.
And finally on this collection of resources is a BBC news story from earlier in 2014 that shows when wind famrs outstripped nuclear power. The story does make it clear that 8 of the UK’s nuclear reactors were offline at the time, but it’s still an interesting article. I am playing with making it a literacy resource, as a laminated article and skim and scan questions at the bottom.
Everyone who has seen this website has been fascinated by it! Near real time data from the national grid made available in a graphical form. Perfect for injecting a note of real science into lessons on energy resources at both Key Stage 3 and 4, and showing the percentage of wind, hydro and biomass energy compared to the that of nuclear, coal and gas is a real eye opener.
This is a related site to that of the more famous gridwatch website that also uses real time data from the national grid and shows it in graph form. I’ve used this as a starter activity just to get discussion moving on renewable vs non-renewable energy. If you want to get into more detailed discussion, you can direct your students to gridwatch (see next blog post).
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