On Saturday, 2 February 2019 18:27:50 UTC, David WE Roberts (Google) wrote:
On Fri, 01 Feb 2019 12:59:14 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

See also exceptionally high demand at the moment and yes, bugger all
wind or solar.

Not critical yet - there's still some CCGT OCGT and a bit more coal in
place.

A lot of demand for the weekend, though.

Just as well we have some wind - given that it has been quite a windy day
I would have expected more unless it is just windy down the East Coast.


Cheers

It's windy all the time. It just moves around.
The purpose of these interconnectors is to "follow" the wind about as the Atlantic low pressure systems transit the UK and Europe.

Poor old TurNiP hasn't worked that out yet.