On 01/03/2018 17:19, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Thu, 01 Mar 2018 08:55:36 -0000, 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.

Can't they just let the pressure fall a bit so we use less?

Air gets in the pipes and boom!

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Max Demian