Thanks all for your replies looking at the dynamic demand meter is a little misleading as it looks like the frequency is closer to the lower limit than it really is 49.5 to 49.7 cycles is only a tiny bit of movement which makes it look like things are worse than they are. I agree that newspapers seem to say that we're all doomed to sitting in the dark each winter which hasn't happened yet except when there's been a major fault somwhere and that's rare of course dramatic headlines sell help them sell these daily rags so that's that
Thanks all for your replies looking at the dynamic demand meter is a little misleading as it looks like the frequency is closer to the lower limit than it really is 49.5 to 49.7 cycles is only a tiny bit of movement which makes it look like things are worse than they are. I agree that newspapers seem to say that we're all doomed to sitting in the dark each winter which hasn't happened yet except when there's been a major fault somwhere and that's rare of course dramatic headlines sell help them sell these daily rags so that's that