On Thu, 1 Mar 2018 10:07:50 +0000, Andy Burns wrote:

Andrew Gabriel wrote:

newshound wrote:

Does "large industrial users" include CCGTs?

That question went through my mind too.

I couldn't see any relevant looking planned/unplanned outages on bmreports

You won't (Drax is missing one biomass unit from a week or so ago)

Yesterday marked the end of the three months of winter where the allocation of
use of grid system charges are determined. From today demand management will be
more relaxed which given the current weather makes it even more interesting

Failure *is* always an option but it is very costly £3300/MWh for loss of supply
(but with lots of exclusions)

For those in the capacity market it's also 100% of their annual payments for
failure to generate as required during the period of a demand control
instruction. That could be £20 million / GW of installed capacity per 'event'
from October 2018 onwards covering 49+GW of 'firm' generation i.e not wind

Wade through the second half of this and you can see the assumptions made for
gas demand

https://www.nationalgrid.com/uk/docu...outlook-report

Roughly 25% of our total annual gas consumption is for electricity generation

Gas fired generation has been down for knocking up a week now.
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