On 01/11/2013 15:20, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 01/11/13 10:56, John Rumm wrote:


It tends to go wrong when there is a big year on year change in degree
days[1] as there was last year and the year before where we moved from a
year that was 10% warmer than average to one that was 11% colder. Thus
creating a big swing in demand. You also upset the system if you make
changes to your usage for any reason (patterns of use, changes to
insulation, boiler etc)


This year right now electricl consumption is almost 10GW less than the
same time last year.

Yup, can well believe that...


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Cheers,

John.

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