I find this very worrisome:
We just avoided a blackout earlier today. It was very close.
Andreas Thingvad is Trading Director at Hybrid Greentech, which specialises 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, the U.K. is 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.
On this occasion, it was open-cycle gas turbines (OCGT) which were quickly ramped up to cope with the outage:
The more we rely on imported electricity from interconnectors, the more we are vulnerable to these problems. And we won’t have gas power around to save us.
First published on Paul Homewood’s blog, Not a Lot of People Know That.
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