I agree with you, Alan, but I think that the reporter is reporting something he doesn't understand.
If you look at yesterday on gridwatch, you can see that the main UK France interconnector was switched on at 6:30am and stayed on until midnight - right through the peak and beyond. And most of the other interconnectors were importing as well.
I suspect that what he was trying to report is that the amount they can import is limited to a set fraction of the gas turbine generation. I notice that the French interconnector stayed at 1.6GW while CCGT was about 7GW then, when the sun set and the CCGT went up to 11GW the French imports went to 2GW.
I'll be interested to see the full report and what the grid can do is the amount of wind and solar keeps growing.
I agree with you, Alan, but I think that the reporter is reporting something he doesn't understand.
If you look at yesterday on gridwatch, you can see that the main UK France interconnector was switched on at 6:30am and stayed on until midnight - right through the peak and beyond. And most of the other interconnectors were importing as well.
I suspect that what he was trying to report is that the amount they can import is limited to a set fraction of the gas turbine generation. I notice that the French interconnector stayed at 1.6GW while CCGT was about 7GW then, when the sun set and the CCGT went up to 11GW the French imports went to 2GW.
I'll be interested to see the full report and what the grid can do is the amount of wind and solar keeps growing.
