Gridwatch. It's a Gas.

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.

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.