In article , Mike Tomlinson
scribeth thus
En el artículo , Chris Hogg
escribió:

Overall, that was rather depressing reading. We seem to be getting
closer and closer to zero reserves

https://www.theguardian.com/business...-of-christmas-
electricity-blackouts-next-year-warn-mps

'tis the Grauniad, so read with usual pinch of salt, and blood pressure
medication to hand for the lunatic fringe in here.


Well is it? Are they? Lets see, a basic rudimentary calc from Gridwatch
assuming the TNP's dials are reasonably accurate we have 25 GW of Gas,
8 Nuke 10 of coal 2G biomass around 4 from the interconnects which leave
Hydro and pumped, very short term storage so thats 49 maybe 50 GW
Capacity.


So the other variables wind and solar?. Sod all wind barely a gig and a
half, sod all Solar.

Demand goes much above 50 GW getting rather close to the available power
eh?.

Bad cold winter, demand high suppose a station or two down for
refuelling or whatever?.

Come back coal then as we have nothing else apart from demand reduction
to fill the gap .. Haven't we?. More Green Leccy motors on the road?
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Tony Sayer