New gridwatch

[Roger Chapman]

Using ctrl works for me in Thunderbird.

[djc]

my regular machine. What is more it keep poping up a window to tell me so I cant see much of the page anyway.

[djc]

Is Enfield still there! I grew up in Enfield, looking out of my bedroom window at two little chimneys, two medium chimneys, and two big chimneys. And I remember them and the cooling towers being demolished in the 70s,

[charles]

there's a 'combined heat & power' derived from waste in Bermonsey

there's another in the City of London using natural gas.

plus others - try googling

[Tim Watts]

There are likely to be lots of "little" combined heat+power plants too. Imperial College has one - which even if it does not net-export to the London system, it does reduce their demand.

[Roger Chapman]

When I looked at that before TNP's site was mentioned to took so to load to load that I nearly gave up on it.. TNP's OTOH loads quickly.

[The Other Mike]

They built another one a few years back, nice and shiny. It runs on gas, that stuff we used to have in abundance. They and the others like Enfield pissed it away at 45% efficiency. Now we have to import the stuff from all corners of the globe.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Now you know why I wrote Gridwatch :-)

[The Natural Philosopher]

Its designed to do that

The difference between designed in C/PHP by an engineer and being designed in adobe by a graphic designer

[Terry Fields]

Just as a matter of interest, the Wind gauge is reading over-scale atm.

This makes it look, however superficially, like it's doing a lot of the work in supplying energy.

Why not make the FSD the current installed capacity (6GW?) so even on a 'good' wind day one can see at a glance how effective it is? It would be half-scale atm, for example.

Terry Fields

[Tim Streater]

Are there any equivalent gridwatch figures or sites for Denmark, Germany, France? I'd be curious to know what the German wind o/p is atm.

[The Natural Philosopher]

fixed.

not if you have 11 plus maths. Agreed half the population don't.

Current installed metered capacity is 3.7GW,

The rest is 'embedded' installations that are paid for on te assumption that they produce more wind than they do.

Plus a large amount of capacity that is claimed to exist by the wind lobby, that I have never actually found..

[The Natural Philosopher]

If you find them, let me know.

Given the pattern of exports to the continent, and the pressure maps from the met office, I'd say that for the last ten days wind in Europe has been approximately zero. Everywhere except the UK and a bit of Portugal.

[Terry Fields]

Ah...I meant the Smiths Industries gauge rather than the graph below it.

Great site BTW, and got it bookmarked - well, a button on the toolbar, for easy access.

Terry Fields

[Dave Liquorice]

And last night even with it being a pretty windy night along the west coast (it was blowing a gale here) wind hadn't reached capacity, though it did get above 3GW.

I think the telling graph is the monthly wind one, days on end where this 3.7GW installed capacity struggles to produce 1GW with just little spikes to >3GW.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Taht is a much bigger fix.

over 500 distinct IP addresses have accessed it since the new site went up.

I'm a bit impressed, too.

[The Natural Philosopher]

It rarely reached 700MW over most of the summer.

Even after the London Array came onstream

I've seen plenty of days< 50MW.

[David WE Roberts]

Just noted in passing that for a short while around 18:00 yesterday we were importing from the French and at the same time exporting to the Dutch. How does that work on charging? Seems a strange thing to be doing, especially as I assume the French and Dutch are interconnected.

Hopefully someone is watching for just such a thing, otherwise you could get the bizzarre French->UK->Dutch->French scenario with some very tired electrons at the end of it all.

Cheers

Dave R

[The Natural Philosopher]

Lord knows. I think the power business is managed by arbitrageurs. I noticed that too.

But by how much...? that gives an extra 1GW from France->UK->Netherlands

:-)

[John Williamson]

And some money staying here, depending on the price on each link.