In article , Tim Watts
scribeth thus
bob wrote:

On Nov 15, 11:20 pm, Charles Ellson
wrote:
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:46:18 +0000 (UTC),
wrote:

On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:28:15 +0000
tony sayer wrote:
Now your part: How many TWh does the continent consume? Germany takes
about 600 TWh/year.

Hans-Joachim

And when the wind don't blow the trains won't go .....

Cue some rubbish about solar energy making up for it from the
ecoidiots...

Cur further implied rubbish that coal, oil and nuclear power stations
run all the time.

Go on then, when was the last time that either the UK or Germany was
unable to supply enough power to keep the grid up due to unplanned/
forced outages of coal, oil, nuclear or gas power stations?

Robin

27th May 2008 came pretty close. The sudden loss of 1.5GW of generation
caused load shedding and emergency Demand Control notices to be issued to
DNOs (regional supply networks). In other words, they came pretty close to
turning off the lights over parts of the UK.



Would that actually happen?. I thought there were quite a few Diesel
gensets of some capacity all over the UK that could be called upon if
need be?. Not that you'd need to as they are IIRC quite expensive to
run...
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Tony Sayer