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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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    Indeed, but the max available from coal now, is less than the level they were running on that day, that represented only about 50% of the peak coal  capacity back then, and the whole country amber warning, running out of power, was about 10GW higher than the equivalent warning threshold today. Luckily demand is below either figure.


    All I am saying is that there has been a lot of change of available generation mix in the last 5 years, and the trend will continue for the next, and the limits will move too. Phasing out coal will look like a picnic compared to the pain to start phasing out the gas turbines, but I am very sure that day will come.
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    Indeed, but the max available from coal now, is less than the level they were running on that day, that represented only about 50% of the peak coal  capacity back then, and the whole country amber warning, running out of power, was about 10GW higher than the equivalent warning threshold today. Luckily demand is below either figure.


    All I am saying is that there has been a lot of change of available generation mix in the last 5 years, and the trend will continue for the next, and the limits will move too. Phasing out coal will look like a picnic compared to the pain to start phasing out the gas turbines, but I am very sure that day will come.
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