We went on a trip to Sizewell B power station today (group trip with some other home educating families).
At the end of trip, in the visitor centre entrance, one of guides was showing some of them the current Uk power station outputs on an iPad. Yup it was showing the Gridwatch website :-)
Awesome!
It's part of an OU course now as well.
Agreed. It does surprise me that TPTB have to rely on what is basically an amateur* site to display grid information in an easily interpreted fashion, albeit very competently. It also surprises me that the same PTB haven't got round to providing readily available data on solar power, bearing in mind the emphasis and widespread interest in renewable energy sources. Surely the data must exist somewhere, otherwise how do TPTB know how much to reimburse the Harry's of this world, or the big commercial operators with their acres of solar farms?
*amateur in the sense of doing it for the love of it, unpaid, rather than the more common meaning of not very good.
ITYM: " ... how much swag to distribute to the ...".
Gridwatch got a mention in the Times today, in Matthew Parris' opinion piece extolling electric cars.
An opportunity, ISTM, for you as author of Gridwatch, TNP, to write an article for the Times pointing out some of the limitations, such as:
1) It won't scale due to shortage of suitable battery materials 2) electric car nice until you need to replace the battery 3) We'll need another xx nukes to supply the juiceand so on.
IOW, inject some actual numbers into the rhetoric.
In message , Chris French writes
Tangent alert. What, if anything, is happening with Sizewell C these days?
Should I mention that the gf's lad got extra marks for using it on some school work regarding the importance of renewable energy?
Yes, I had read that, but it does not really say much. It seems to refer to Sizewell C as a proposal, which is very early days.
It's rather going to depend on what happens with Hinkley Point C.
Well, you know how to interpret that then ...
Harry's send in their generation reading every month/quarter and get paid accordingly plus a bonus of 50% of that generation that has been deemed to be exported, even if none has been exported. So no realtime data on these purely financial investment installations is available.
That ought to be realtime available but have we actually got much large scale solar PV? Does even get to a single gigawatt flat out?
I did spend quite a lot of time reading about the original proposal, the projections etc. Rail terminal, roads etc. Although we're now in Aberdeenshire, I know that part of the world quite well, and should we ever move back south, Suffolk/Norfolk will probably be top of the list.
My daughters linguistics dissertation compared the idiosyncrasies of uk.rec.sheds, and something called Mumsnet. uk.diy may have got in there, but I can't remember.
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