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Some figures on UK gas storage

For natural gas to allow data sources to be compared, assuming reasonably pure methane

1 GWh  ≈0.1 MScm 

UK daily burn  is ~ between 100 and 200MSCM, or  1000-2000GWh each day. 

UK gas storage as a few graphs   Note that our long range store has a leak and is not available, so why they plot a flat line who knows, Scroll a bit for the medium range store, and realise we have about 15 000 gigawatt hours in the tank (7 to 15 days if there was no incoming supply at all - but there always is..)

Then scroll down to the LNG graphs, and notice that the up steps are when a ship unloads LNG at Milford haven or wheever, and the steady decline between those up ticks is our rate of use from those tanks, perhaps 2000 gigawatt hours in 3- 4 weeks.  That has about 6000 GWhr in it tonight.  But many of us in the south have not put the heating on yet ;-) so that rate of run-down could probably rise a bit.

Mike.

 

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  • Yes, the Nat Grid ability to predict the future is not very confidence inspiring is it ?  Perhaps this explains some recent  ministerial statements, that are about as reassuring as Corporal Jones in dad's army - “ don't panic, don't panic”.

    I presume it is an artifact of some join the dots curve fitting software running off the end of the real data.

    Mike.

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  • Yes, the Nat Grid ability to predict the future is not very confidence inspiring is it ?  Perhaps this explains some recent  ministerial statements, that are about as reassuring as Corporal Jones in dad's army - “ don't panic, don't panic”.

    I presume it is an artifact of some join the dots curve fitting software running off the end of the real data.

    Mike.

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