As I look now 1515 almost exactly what the Oil burners are producing at
1.3GW... But it's waving about quite a bit, now 1.21GW oil. another 5 mins, oil 0.92GW.
Presumably warmed up ready to cope with tonights 1700/1730 peak? I see that since 1200 ish there has been a 1 to 2GW drop in CCGT. When did the oil start coming online? The CCGT is reasonably dispatchable...
Where is that site that gives the grid warning messages?
We had three short-lived power cuts this morning, over the space of two hours. The guy on the power-cut helpline said they were having 'problems' in the East of England.
The obsession with electric heating that is the only logic for "very cold weather demands more electricity than normally cold weather". It can't be lighting, a cold winter isn't darker than a normal winter, the only extra demand a colder-than-usual winter makes is for extra heating, and all the proposed "solutions" are increased electricity capacity, not increased gas capacity, so that is based on the assumption/prescription that that additional heating is electric heating.
The discovery of frakable gas under Blackpool should be greated with "great, people can keep warm", not "great, let's build more power stations".
There seemed to be an insane period when electricity was cheap and some architect (or several) though that electric heaters would save a fortune on installation costs. I'm fairly sure that the source of heating in these places is either slimline wall mounted heaters or air con being run in heat pump mode.
No boiler house / signs of exhaust being vented to atmosphere. In a couple of places if the electric panel is turned off temperature falls to freezing, so I don't see any evidence of other sources of heat.
The server and two computers keeps my living room a toasty 15'C with the doors closed and the central heating off, plenty comfortable enough with a coat on.
I thunk the idea is to dam the whole Irish sea and pump it all out when its windy, then you can let it fill up again when its not. They could do the same with the Mediterranean, and save Venice.
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