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Default New gridwatch

Mike Tomlinson wrote:
In article , The Natural Philosopher
writes

you DO need to know it the OCGT goes to e.g. 0.040GW because that shows
you that someone somewhere in national grid central has got sufficiently
alarmed to ask for power from some of the crappiest and most expensive
kit we have


What's CCGT, please? presumably gas?

Combined cycle gas turbine. A jet engine whose exhaust runs a steam
boiler and steam turbine.

Very efficient except when being asked to ramp up and down to keep the
wind balanced. Then so inefficient that some people claim adding the
windmills increases the carbon foot print.
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