On 11/08/14 15:26, Lee wrote:
On 11/08/2014 13:51, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

A total non story except they happen to be nuclear power stations and
therefore guaranteed media coverage by ****s .


Fair enough point, although any major loss of generating capacity at the
moment, from any type of plant, is still a valid story for those who may
care whether the lights stay on this winter

As I said, the planned outages are generally when peak demand isn't in
the offing. EDF tries to have all reactors up for DEC-MAR as that is
when they are most profitable.

Likewise coal boilers are down and out at the moment as, given only
limited hours to run, it pays to run them when the prices are highest.


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