On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 03:01:09 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Take week 98 of 2013 (the highest currently declared week for next
year) and the MW declared availability is as follows:

Week 98? They "CEGB" must use different "weeks" to the rest of us. B-)

When is week 98 of 2013?

One thing is pretty certain, this time next year there will be around
2GW less generation available and it could be even worse due to more
Euro eco ******** about protecting marine environments

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-s...wales-20660152

Yes I saw that. I bet RWE are *really* pleased, having gone through all
the right proceedures and got all the right approvals etc.

Typical bloody Eurocrats, "you need to do X Y & Z to comply with
Regulations M N & O", so you do X Y & Z and get compliance with
regulations M N & O signed off. 6 months later the Eurocrats say why have
you done X Y & Z you should have done A B & C and doing Y with Z
contravens regulation M anyway...

If they can't run the plant I expect RWE will be taking some body to
court over lost revenues etc, and guess who will be picking that bill
up...

I ought to have all that in the database as well)

Be nice, particulary if it's real time as well. Well as "real time" as
the declared capacities are.

BUT lets look at February.

Yep the declared capacities for Dec, Jan, Feb would be better than the
aboslute maximum available. Febuary particulary as that is generally when
the coldest part of winter is.

Having said that, I think 2015 is when the **** may well hit the fan.

That's when it's scheduled to hit the fan, but it could be earlier as the
coal stations that have to closed at that point in time will probably run
out of hours well before then and the new gas plants might not be
finished...

--
Cheers
Dave.