On Wed, 31 May 2017 09:46:19 +0100, Mike Tomlinson wrote:

"Grid operator National Grid said PV generated 24.3 per cent of demand
at 1 pm, ...

How do they know I thought most Solar PV was embeded and not metered?

... beating the previous record of 8.48 GW and for the first time
providing more power than the nation's eight nuclear plants"

Heysham 1 Reactors 1 an 2 are not running flat out, 484 and 511 MW
respectively. Torness Reactor 1 is off line for statutary inspection
and consuming 23 MW. The total generation scrapped from the EDF
website just now is 8.248 GW.

Now if they could just arrange for the sun to shine at night...

Quite. Bugger all wind according to gridwatch, 0.61 GW. Gas 15.67 GW,
Gridwatch has solar at 6 GW peak today, dropped a GW now.

Or are we talking about last Friday?

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Cheers
Dave.