Yes, plus watching the pattern last winter. Which was a lot different.
The whole European grid is more or less interconnected..The French are already building a huge pylon line to carry more nuclear power to Germany, and they really run the whole of N Italy. France allows the rest of Europe to build useless renewable energy and claim they are 'green' and 'nuclear free' whilst they import much of their power from France.
Correct.
The Irish interconnect has been down for months, as has been half the French..its been +- 1GW nearly all year, but its now back up to +-2GW.
The Dutch ICT only was commissioned earlier this year - its been a huge success and is always busy, so I reckon they make money out of it.
You are concerned at 0.040GW from OCGT but if Harry is to be believed there are by now more than 90,000 domestic PV installations. At 4KW that would be a maximum output of 0.360GW (or have I got the decimal point in the wrong place?) That might not be measurable as it is all consumed locally but that amount is surely more significant than a figure a factor of 10 smaller even if it doesn't register on your radar.
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Well I'd be interested if my supplier wasn't paying their bills, especially as they seem to push smartmeters, which means all their customers *could* be remotely disconnected.
That is unlikely now. There is more generation in and around London than there ever has been, the grid is also a lot more resiliant within London (cable upgrades and upping the voltage from 275 to 400kV on some circuits)
Er, no. There is almost NO power generation left in London *whatsoever*.
Only Barking is left IIRC and Enfield.
From around 20 power stations in the 60's only two are still operating.
The big stuff is miles away..
theres a smidgeon at Woking and Croydon.
that may be true, but if it cant be generated it can't be transmitted.
London is woefully dependent on power stations MILES away - like 60, 70,
100 miles away.
The big nukes are all coastal estuarine. The poxy windmills are really in scotland or of the S.E coast, and do f*ck all anyway.
When you look a serious power you think Drax - enough to power almost all of London. But nowhere near it. Oh no. Cant have all that nasty coal in London.
Unless there are problems with the overhead line that runs along the North Wales coast then it is safe to assume that Dinorwig doesn't pump from about 6am to 10pm, but its a bit more complicated than that and has been for a while.
The closure of Anglesey Aluminium a couple of years ago, which was the only major load in that area, means that voltage control, due to the lightly loaded overhead lines can be a concern. So they sometimes simultaneously pump and generate at Dinorwig. Yes, it sounds crazy I know!
Once Wylfa shuts next year Dinorwig will revert back to its previous role.
yeah..I looked up the nuke situation on wiki..two plants running at 70% because the boilers aren't up to the full crack..two due to close in
2015..right now we are running every coal plant we have and driving the links to Europe flat out.
How 'green' is that? We burn coal so the Krauts and Danes can get smug about 'their' carbon footprints. Not that they are any better than ours, frankly.
Barking CCGT having a damn sight higher output than the combined output of all that has existed on the site before, its not far off the previous combined output of Barking, Bankside and Battersea!
Not to make any difference
London probably has more supergrid route miles by area than anywhere else in the UK, except maybe Sheffield which has a very extensive
275kV ring for what was the steel industry.
Nowhere near that far out! I did say in and *around* London
Within 40 miles of Charing Cross, and often a lot closer:
Rye House (0.7GW) Gas Kingsnorth 2GW (Coal/Oil) Grain A 1.2GW (Oil - was once 3GW - or was it 2.4 couldn't recall if they ever finished the last unit after the laggers strike) Grain B 1.3GW (Gas) Littlebrook 1.4GW (Oil) Barking 1GW (Gas) Tilbury 1.4GW (Coal) Enfield 0.4GW (Gas)
Moving a bit further out to 50 miles
Didcot A 2GW (Coal) Didcot B 1.4GW (Gas) Little Barford 0.7GW (Gas)
But, even the ones 50 mile distant from Charing Cross are less than 30 circuit route miles from the very resilient 275kV ring round London.
Rye House + Kingsnorth + Grain A + Grain B + Littlebrook + Barking + Tilbury + Enfield= 9.4GW ... well more than twice that of Drax.
In fact at 9.4GW, that is more than the output of all the coal fired stations in Yorkshire, and 1.5 times that of coal stations on the River Trent, or three times the coal and gas stations on the Mersey and Dee estuaries
I still think they should build a couple of really big nukes close to London though :)
It fits with room to spare on the right-hand side on my Philips 234EL
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