On 01/03/18 10:11, The Other Mike wrote:
On Thu, 1 Mar 2018 08:58:06 +0000, newshound
wrote:

On 01/03/2018 08:55, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
On the news just now...

Apparently gas consumption today would be 400M cubic metres, but
there's only 350M cubic metres available, so a gas deficit has been
declared. This means large industrial users will have their gas cut
off for part of the day.

The two contributory factors are 1/3rd extra usage today over normal
due to the weather, and two gas import docks broken down.

Centrica closed our North Sea gas storage last year, which held 9
weeks supply of gas, due ot it being not commercially viable
anymore. Gas spot price currently 190p/therm.


Interesting. Does "large industrial users" include CCGTs?


That all depends on their specific gas supply arrangements, if they are
connected to the gas transmission system or have a dedicated pipeline.

Also if they have interrupible gas contracts. Many do. But industrial users
will be kicked off first.

Without the wind generation we'd have been a long way up that iced over creek
called **** for most of this week.

Even with it it's 'interesting'

Ain't it just.

You should write some stuff on how the grid works commercially and I'll
stick it on Gridwatch.




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