is very interesting.
Wood burning down, coal burning up, solar falling away, hydro and pumped at half throttle...Franch IMPORTING like mad
Looks like someone has worked out that in this sort of weather, it is wise to not rely on solar panels and wind turbines, or France.
Yesterday 900MW of wind just fell off the chart in a generally rising trend. Wind farm shutting down?
Look for more.
Yes its very difficult to walk that walk between protecting your assets and making hay while the sun shines or in this case the wind blows. What about the storm surge up the bit between the west country and Wales? Brian
Cool to see the fall in Solar at about 15:00. The sun just went out here, like an eclipse at 15:00 (London).
It never really came back but solar appears to have come back in the rest of the country.
It decamped west; been lovely here since 1500!
Not sure that wasn't a data glitch
"There are growing concerns that France, which depends on atomic power for over 75 percent of its electricity needs, could face tight power supplies in the coming weeks due to prolonged outages at several reactors.
After several delays in the restart of some reactors following maintenance and a review ordered by the nuclear watchdog, 21 out of France?s 58 nuclear reactors are offline, putting available nuclear capacity at 63.80 percent of the total. [POWER/FR]
The supply worries have driven French and German forward power prices to new heights. French power contracts for 2018 delivery hit a record high of 43.55 euros ($51.36) a megawatt hour (MWh) on Wednesday, up 2.35 percent.
EDF, which has lowered its 2017 nuclear generation target to 385-392 terawatt hours (TWh) from 390-400 TWh, said on Monday its cumulative nuclear output so far this year was down 1.3 percent compared with same period last year. "
October 11, 2017 / 10:14 AM / 5 days ago
Indeed so. It looked like the start of the end of the world.
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