Not many people know that
By Paul Homewood
h/t Joe Public
I find this very worrying:
https://twitter.com/AndrewOrlowski/status/1843669739287261351/photo/1
Thingvad is Trading Director at Hybrid Greentech, which specializes in Energy Storage Intelligence, making him a reliable source.
The X-Feed is by Andrew Orlowski, writing for the Telegraph.
This incident highlights how foolhardy it is to rely so heavily on imported electricity. At the moment we have of course been able to close the deficit, probably with gas.
The Elexon diagram below shows how the NSL interconnector instantaneously collapsed at 7:50am BST and did not return to full power until 9:25am.
https://bmrs.elexon.co.uk/generation-by-fuel-type
On this occasion, it was OCGT that was quickly ramped up to deal with the outage:
The more we rely on I/C, the more susceptible we are to these problems. And we will not have gas electricity to save us.
4.8
5
Voices
Article review
Like this:
Load…
