By Paul Homewood
h/t Joe Public
I find this very worrisome:
https://x.com/AndrewOrlowski/status/1843669739287261351/photo/1
Thingvad is Trading Director at Hybrid Greentech, who specialise in Energy Storage Intelligence, so he is a reliable source.
The X Feed is from Andrew Orlowski, who writes for the Telegraph.
This incident highlights the foolhardiness of relying so much on imported electricity. At the moment, of course, we were able to plug the shortfall, presumably with gas.
The Elexon chart below shows how the NSL Interconnector collapsed instantaneously at 7.50am BST and was only back up running at full power at 9.25am.
https://bmrs.elexon.co.uk/generation-by-fuel-type
On this occasion, it was OCGT which was quickly ramped up to cope with the outage:
The more we rely on I/C, the more we are vulnerable to these problems. And we won’t have gas power around to save us.
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