Donno but there's 350 MW of OCGT running now (1350 22/1). Strangely coal is only 2.22 GW and CCGT 25.48 GW so plenty of head room on those. We are also exporting to the Dutch (0.38 GW) but importing from France (1.85 GW) and Belgium (1 GW) A mere 2 GW from wind and solar…
Read the full replyI see the grid frequency sagged a bit just now but seems to have recovered. Solar has flopped to zero, wind gives us a bit more than
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Donno but there's 350 MW of OCGT running now (1350 22/1). Strangely coal is only 2.22 GW and CCGT 25.48 GW so plenty of head room on those.
We are also exporting to the Dutch (0.38 GW) but importing from France (1.85 GW) and Belgium (1 GW)
A mere 2 GW from wind and solar combined.
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