At 0920 Templar Gridwatch is reporting that Wind is producing 1.62% of demand and Solar is at 0.38%.
OCGT and Coal are producing 0.68% and 2.70%, which is more than the total from Wind and Solar.
All the interconnectors bar one are on import, some are maxed out, and hydro is contributing 2.76%.
Gas is at 61.7% of demand.
This is the first wide high pressure area of this winter. It’s going to be here for a few days.
Have we all got our backups sorted?
No, but the government are experts at generating hot air, so we will be OK. Brian
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Just shows up how the energy supply is f***ed good and proper!
And the pratts in the house of loons are masterbating about if new windy mills should be on shore of off shore where it seems their all equally useless,,
So we'll just be in hock to where we can get any gas from
They did keep some coal plants ready to run didn't they?.
Anyone know if the nuclear output is likely to rise up to where it used to be?..
We have about 2GW left. and its running now
Not since they closed the first of the AGRs, we have only 5 reactor sires left,. which is ten 500-600MWE reactors of which two are down - one for a steam fault, the other for refuelling, and a third is coming back up to power
That's at best 5GW.
And it looks like Hinkley point wont be ready for another 12 years. That is simply incredible, and has to be deliberate on someone's part.
3 left I believe. Good job we still import 19% of our coal requirements from Russia (including a lot of coking coal).
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