Anything with "wind turbine" in the title is bound to invite a lot of trolling from the energy armchair specialists...so here's a little fuel for the fire...
Nuclear power is by a country mile the most expensive way the human race has ever discovered to produce electricity. And BTW, pumped storage was originally built in the UK grid in the fifties, to stabilise what what was planned to be an predominantly nuclear powered grid, because back then, nuclear power was pretty much completely inflexible.
If you want to see what a modern flexible power grid looks like, hop over the water to Norway...it's the envy of the modern world. Guess what...it's got a shedload of pumped storage and interconnectors...which means its flexible to the problems of intermittency and can adapt to most power sources.
The UK is headed towards a power gap in a few years time, with blackouts an increasing possibility. Neither additional nuclear power nor locally sourced shale gas will have any effect whatsoever on this power gap, because neither is remotely close to coming on stream.
Currently there are no (no as in zero, zilch, nothing) shale gas reserves in the UK (as reported to the UK Parliamentary Committee on Energy, by the British Geological Survey). There are shale gas deposits, but it will take some years of exploratory drilling before anybody knows if they are economically exploitable or not.
I could go on but you are all bored and wondering what my point it.
It is this...99% of everything you read and hear about energy in the UK is pure spraff and hot air (pun intended). That's how we do it over here...it allows the politicians and energy companies to treat us like the mugs we are, by getting us to argue amongst ourselves about stuff we do not have a scoobies about.