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Power shortages

Hi I must admit I don't understand why gas prices have gone up so much it makes little sense to me if your sat on top of a thumping great gas reserve and someone else needs that gas then surely it's better to sell it cheaper to encourage use  thats how it seems to me anyhow. The next Point is  that we now have a link with Norway  and a link with the Netherlands and one with Begium all capable of supplying around the 1000 Megawatts level of supply so the new links far exceed the now knackered French link so why is there a problem?  Again it seems we can still get more european power than before so in theory all should be well. Finally what actually caught fire at selinge  is it something difficult to replace like a thyristor stack or a transformer or an oil switch or something less troublesome like a computer or similar? 

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  • This youtube video may be of interest.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNEXWITxkmg

    A prolonged power cut due to an apparently simple cable fault but with repairs much delayed by escaping gas.

    Shows what can go wrong without any shortage of generating capacity. Note in particular the traffic congestion and general disruption caused by both the repairs and by the transportable generators.

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  • This youtube video may be of interest.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNEXWITxkmg

    A prolonged power cut due to an apparently simple cable fault but with repairs much delayed by escaping gas.

    Shows what can go wrong without any shortage of generating capacity. Note in particular the traffic congestion and general disruption caused by both the repairs and by the transportable generators.

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