In article , newshound
wrote:
On 07/01/2021 19:57, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 07/01/2021 18:36, Jeff Layman wrote:
On 07/01/2021 17:49, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
It's cold. ****ING cold. The Dutch interconnector is borked. French
and Belgian interconnectors running flat out. Wood burners flat out.
Hydro and pumped nearly flat out. Nuclear as flat out as the number
of reactors not in maintenance allows. No solar. **** all wind. Coal
running as high as I have seen it in 5 years and OCGT is above
anything i've ever recorded.

There seems to be some margin left in gas but its mighty close.

https://gridwatch.org.uk/

If only global warming worked and CO2 made us warm we would be
toasty.

Just had a look at the Gridwatch France site. I see their demand is
over 87GW, compared to ours at just under 47GW. Considering the
population levels are about the same, do you know what accounts for
this 85% higher demand in France? Your rollover notes that it does not
include what France is exporting. Surely it's not heavy industry,
especially with the effect Covid is having.

France went nuclear in 1970 something - OPEC raised oil priuces, De
Gaulle said '**** the Arabs' and built, nukes. Electricity wasn't too
cheap to meter, but it was ****ing cheap and france had no gas and sod
all coal so leccy is what they heat their homes with.

France also used to ship LNG across the Med from North Africa.

so did we before North Sea gas came on-line.

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