Gridwatch. It's a Gas.

Zoom, don't panic. 

They are planning lots more solar and wind farms so that we will have electrickery when all the nuclear stations reach the end of their lives and we will have more interconnections providing power from our friends the EU. 

What can possibly go wrong?

But I am sure that someone somewhere has a plan and fusion should be along in the next 20 years.

Zoom, start panicking!

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kfh: 
 

Zoom, don't panic. 

They are planning lots more solar and wind farms so that we will have electrickery when all the nuclear stations reach the end of their lives and we will have more interconnections providing power from our friends the EU. 

What can possibly go wrong?

But I am sure that someone somewhere has a plan and fusion should be along in the next 20 years.

Zoom, start panicking!

?

Oh ek! Gridwatch shows a very low wind turbine output today.

Z.

kfh: 
What can possibly go wrong?

A fire at IFA(1)! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58579829

Glad I bought that job lot of candles now Lol

When folk talk of serious price hikes to limit demand enough to compensate for the loss of a couple of GW of French nuclear power, it makes you realize how little slack there is in our system in terms of a percentage of the total. (for perspective, just Drax  on its own can do about twice that cable, or most of  Ferrybridge )

Good job its not cold weather coming and we are not encouraging the fitting of electric heating and more electric car chargers. Oh dear, we are..

(and raising the price until some loads cannot afford and drop off  is  very primitive method of regulating the system and very disruptive to industry)

 I'm old enough to recall the hubris of ‘in future the electricity will be too cheap to meter’ . Well are not quite there yet.

Mike.

I think I am going to have to start stockpiling coal, torches, batteries and doing something about the logs in my garden that need cutting up.?

Kelly Marie Angel: 
 

Glad I bought that job lot of candles now Lol

I keep a modest supply of candles, only a few thousand though !

And oil lamps, and a hundred liters of paraffin, and at least a hundred alkaline D cells.

It is IMHO well worth keeping a close watch on prices of bulk packs of candles and of D cells on fleabay, even if not intending to purchase any. Low prices=public confidence in electricity supply. High prices=lack of confidence.