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U.K. Electrical Demand High.

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Tonight the demand needle is nearly in the amber section of the meter. Does that mean this?


"According the Gridwatch tag: The amber warning represents the demand level that cannot be reliably met by wood or fossil burning, or nuclear generation, but must be augmented by imports, or unreliable intermittent renewable energy. Note that coal, gas and nuclear are close to limits."

https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/


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    mapj1:

    Given that on a good day more than 1/4 of our generation can be from  these unreliable sources and that demand can be cut back from certain industrial customers almost at the touch of a button, it is not as perhaps as precarious as it sounds.

    None the less we are at or near  the point where a loss of one large power station or a couple of interconnectors would indeed be a serious matter . As the older coal and nuclear stations get dismantled or mothballed, the reserve capacity of traditional generation is  certainly reducing.

    It is quite fun to see where in GW the amber line used to be even just five years ago, Red is the new Amber...
    Archive snapshot of December 2014 - 5 years ago not quite to the day...




    Your snap shot shows coal producing 34 per cent at that instant in time.



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    mapj1:

    Given that on a good day more than 1/4 of our generation can be from  these unreliable sources and that demand can be cut back from certain industrial customers almost at the touch of a button, it is not as perhaps as precarious as it sounds.

    None the less we are at or near  the point where a loss of one large power station or a couple of interconnectors would indeed be a serious matter . As the older coal and nuclear stations get dismantled or mothballed, the reserve capacity of traditional generation is  certainly reducing.

    It is quite fun to see where in GW the amber line used to be even just five years ago, Red is the new Amber...
    Archive snapshot of December 2014 - 5 years ago not quite to the day...




    Your snap shot shows coal producing 34 per cent at that instant in time.



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