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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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    I am not sure what fraction of the current load is supplied under interruptible contracts, but the fact the rates exist and are a significant fraction of the firm rates, not almost give away, suggest there is an appetite for it in some businesses. Equally, any industry that loses any production under loss of power should be on a firm contract, not an interruptible one.

    I can imagine that companies offering all day parking with car charging with hi/lo current rates would be an expanding area that should be added to that sort of load management pricing regime.

    I also agree, we need more generation and if we are to be reliant on wind, sun and rain, then also more storage, and in really serious amounts, equivalent to days of generation, removing traditional capacity and not replacing it is unwise.


    It is telling (see another post today) that at some US car charging stations they are adding very large local batteries (the Tesa offering is the Megapack, the building block unit is about 3 megawatt-hrs worth of Lithium cells and a megawatt of 3 phase inverter ! ) to augment the incoming supply as a demand smoothing measure, and by the look of it, it is not really working well enough.



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    I am not sure what fraction of the current load is supplied under interruptible contracts, but the fact the rates exist and are a significant fraction of the firm rates, not almost give away, suggest there is an appetite for it in some businesses. Equally, any industry that loses any production under loss of power should be on a firm contract, not an interruptible one.

    I can imagine that companies offering all day parking with car charging with hi/lo current rates would be an expanding area that should be added to that sort of load management pricing regime.

    I also agree, we need more generation and if we are to be reliant on wind, sun and rain, then also more storage, and in really serious amounts, equivalent to days of generation, removing traditional capacity and not replacing it is unwise.


    It is telling (see another post today) that at some US car charging stations they are adding very large local batteries (the Tesa offering is the Megapack, the building block unit is about 3 megawatt-hrs worth of Lithium cells and a megawatt of 3 phase inverter ! ) to augment the incoming supply as a demand smoothing measure, and by the look of it, it is not really working well enough.



    edit  megapack article


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