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Paul Homewood
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I find this very concerning:
https://twitter.com/AndrewOrlowski/status/1843669739287261351/photo/1
Thingvad is the trading director at Hybrid Greentech, specializing in energy storage smarts, so he's a reliable source.
X Feed from Telegraph writer Andrew Orlowski.
The incident highlights the recklessness of over-reliance on imported electricity. Of course, currently we are able to make up the shortfall, presumably with natural gas.
The Elexon diagram below shows how the NSL interconnector instantly collapsed at 7.50am BST, only to return to full power at 9.25am.
https://bmrs.elexon.co.uk/ Generation-by-fuel-type
This time, OCGT activated quickly to respond to the outage:
The more we rely on I/C, the more susceptible we are to these problems. We won't have natural gas around to save us.
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