Coal power Gone???

Coal output at 0% today at 14:49 is this the first time its happened?...

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tony sayer
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No...

mysql> select distinct date(timestamp) from day where coal = 0;

+-----------------+ | date(timestamp) | +-----------------+ | 2011-10-20 | | 2012-04-20 | | 2013-09-25 | | 2014-07-01 | | 2014-10-10 | | 2014-10-11 | | 2014-11-02 | | 2016-01-28 | | 2016-01-29 | | 2016-02-02 | | 2016-05-09 | | 2016-05-10 | | 2016-05-11 | | 2016-05-12 | +-----------------+

BUT without delving deeper those earlier ones may be data gaps rather than true 'no coal' days.

Reply to
The Natural Philosopher

Maybe they've just declared that funny black stuff to be some kind of biomass to make the numbers look good ;)

Probably time to change the bubble text for coal too

"Coal is the largest contributor to the UK grid..."

Not any more, even if the zero is a duff.

Reply to
Ian

yeah, yeah. Gridwatch MkII is probably overdue, when I get a round tuit..

Reply to
The Natural Philosopher

That's odd. There was loads of vapour coming from the cooling towers at Ferrybridge when I came by at about 12:30 today.

Mike

Reply to
Muddymike

vapings the new craze.

Reply to
whisky-dave

The coal fired stations at Ferrybridge are all closed, A in 1976, B in 1992 and C in March 2016.

There is a 68 MW Multifuel (biomass, fuel from waste and waste wood) operational on the Ferrybridge C site. As that is a thermal station like coal presumably it still needs the cooling towers.

Reply to
Dave Liquorice

Might not be doing anything now but come winter... Eyeballing the longer time period graphs on Gridwatch, it'd put the order of biggest conributor to be gas, nuke, coal, then a close call between biomass and wind.

Reply to
Dave Liquorice

The multifuel site is totally separate with it's own low profile fan assisted cooling towers just about visible on Google streetview from the A1 southbound at the rear of the site.

There is water in the old cooling tower ponds, plus plenty of draught by virtue of their shape. Certain conditions can cause visible plumes to appear above the tower rim giving the illusion of power production.

The last unit at Ferrybridge C ceased generation shortly after 1230 GMT 23rd March 2016.

Reply to
The Other Mike

Around 11pm 9th May the last coal fired unit at Ratcliffe dropped offline. Back on by about 3am on the 10th at about 30MW and at a nominal 500MW by 730am

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The Other Mike

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