Gridwatch France

[tony sayer]

In article , The Natural Philosopher scribeth thus

Now if we had that 2nd dial from the left;))...

[The Natural Philosopher]

Sadly not.

What the French do is report an hourly 'commercial booking' of each interconnect they have.

And the *total* physical imports and exports over all those links every

15 minutes.

I allocate them in proportion to the countries commercial rates pre booked, so if the exports rise beyond the commercially booked rates so to do the indicated figures.

What that means therefore is that someone somewhere is pulling more power than they booked. And some of it gets allocated to the UK. even though its not actually flowing.

If I get time I'll subtract the actual UK figure from the total and work the approximations on what's left.

But I'm too tired to do that tonight.

[The Natural Philosopher]

yeah. If only. :-(

[Chris J Dixon]

Excellent!

Looks like you might need a bit more headroom for total demand - Monday morning has it over 63 GW.

Chris

[Rob]

A suggestion for the UK page. I have often thought it would be useful to have the coal, nuclear, CCGT & wind on the same scale, 0 to 25, which would allow a very easy like for like comparison.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Fixed...

France uses cheap nuclear electricity, not gas, for heating;-)

[Adrian C]

In the seventies I saw some TV commercials that mentioned some food products (obviously must have been radioactive) that gave the consumer a clearly defined orange glow outline while walking down a cold street.

In the eighties they must have stripped out the nuclear material, replaced it with tartrazine and formulated the product as a fizzy orange drink. The benefit to the user is still that orange glow with a faster heart beat.

In the nineties, David Dickinson ...

Excuse me while I get me coat.