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Default Crikey. We have a little gas capacity left

On 07/01/2021 17:57, Andy Burns wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote:

It's cold. ****ING cold.


Yes didn't notice what the frost got down to overnight, but with the fog
all morning the sun didn't get round to melting it in the afternoon.

The Dutch interconnector is borked.


Hinckley B, Dungeness B and one unit of Heysham nukes offline too.


System price, normally about £40/MWh peaked at over £1500/MWh.
No wonder hydro and coal and OCGT are flat out. Filling their boots.

Yes folks, that's £1.50 per unit.

Gotta lurve the money we didn't spend on nukes but onb windmills and
solar panels



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