OT: "All up: No reserves"

No, this is expected actually. For once wind has done pretty much what it was expected to, and everything is in place

System but price around £40/Mwh, which is where it should be.

No this is a heavy peak, handled correct6ly because everything went according to plan.

It has however generated a LOT of interest today.

Traffic is pretty damned high

and it's a hot topic elsewhere

I bet alarm bells are ringing in CEGB main control...

Well no system warnings issued despite all the recent price spikes, but the french inter-connector is at half-wick after last week's storm.

odd how a storm affects undersea cables...???

Possibly damaged by an anchor ...

All sounds a bit rum to me.

En el artículo , Andy Burns escribió:

Still next week's forecast -8C cold snap to come...

En el artículo , Andy Burns escribió:

or a Russian sub.

they have to come on shore somewhere.

The map certainly looks a bit rum

AFAIK it's not far away from the chunnel?

Seems they picked up the map from a proposed additional UK/FR inter-connector ...

It looks like a flat top is appearing in the evening demand curve. I wonder if demand is being curtailed, i.e. those people that get cheap electricity on the basis that they will stop using it when asked, have been asked.

Oh dear. -2GW 'surplus' on the the 6th DEC...

Hopefully everyone on Green Tariffs is sitting down to a nice hummus sandwich by candlelight.

Owain

En el artículo , snipped-for-privacy@gowanhill.com escribió:

Or burning their new fivers.

In article , Mike Tomlinson writes

I'm a veggie but I don't eat five pound notes.

In article , Mike Tomlinson writes

Thos who say they will refuse to accept them should remember that a shop is under no legal obligation to provide change.

Anyone know how these Vegans get to Earth? After all, Vega is 25 light-years away. Also astonishing is how much like humans they look.

Just to note that I quite like the gauges on gridwatch.co.uk.

I find them more readable than the "Smiths Instruments" style on "gridwatch.templar.co.uk".

Especially for the little ones.

Also noted that the templar version has coal and nuclear almost up against the stops, but the other site seems to think that 8.35 GW is only part way round the dial. Unless, of course, they haven't bothered to factor in maximum possible capacity. A bit like a rev counter going up to 9,000 rpm when the rev limiter comes in at 6,000 rpm.

Mmmm....nearly everything close to the stops. Time to fire up some OCGT, perhaps?

Why are we exporting to the Irish when we are so close to the limit?

Cheers

Dave R

You are in good company, either Walter Marshall or James Lovelock (and perhaps both) have said the same thing. But not a solution for everyone. I forget the exact sums, but if all our electricity came from nuclear then a lifetime's vitrified high level waste is about the size of a hockey puck per person. And while this would be warm to the touch (and you would want it pretty well shielded) it is only going to give you a few watts or tens of watts.

A nuclear fuel flask shipping used fuel away from a power station is also warm to the touch, but mostly from shorter lived isotopes, after a year or two most have decayed.