On 28/10/13 15:12, David.WE.Roberts wrote:
On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 13:50:33 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 28/10/13 10:37, Dave Liquorice wrote:
Seems to have been an instant drop of about 1 GW sourced from nuclear
just after 0700 this morning. Capacity taken up by pumped and hydro.
The EDF .pdf nuke status page hasn't been updated since the 21st.

What has dropped off line?

Dungeness IIRC, It lost the grid connection and shut down

BBC have a story somewhere.

Telegrope blames 'hurricane force winds' - I thought they hadn't turned up
apart from in pulp fiction.


Well they have an they haven't. Round here there are signs that nasty
little highly localised eddies or tornadoes have snapped trees.

so it is possible that something has bitched a power line - and quite a
big power line if the station was cut off.




Cheers

Dave R



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