On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:46:22 +0100, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

I've heard it alleged that the biggest d(demand) by d(time) was at the
end of the 1966 international match,

That had TV Pickups of half time 260MW, full time 600MW.

This is small, even for the same period, other "TV pickups" were well
over 1000MW.

Top so far is "4 July 1990 World Cup Semi-final (West Germany v
England) 2,800MW"

RH side bar
on:

http://www.nationalgrid.com/uk/Media...leases/30-6-06.
htm

All of the Top Ten are over 2GW.

http://www.nationalgrid.com/uk/Media...up/didyouknow/

Dinorwig is rated at 1800MW for up to 6hrs. So that record TV Pickup
needed another 1GW of capacity from somewhere.

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Cheers
Dave.