Posted on 10/18/2022 6:56:04 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The head of Britain's electricity and gas systems' operator has told households to prepare for blackouts between 4pm and 7pm on weekdays during "really, really cold" days in January and February if gas imports are reduced.
John Pettigrew, the National Grid chief, said blackouts would have to be imposed during the "deepest darkest evenings" in January and February if electricity generators did not have enough gas to meet demand, especially if there is a period of cold weather.
Britain gets 40% of its electricity from gas-fired power stations while gas heats the vast majority of homes.
Although Britain does not import gas from Russian, it does import electricity and gas from European countries that rely on Russian gas.
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Let’s look at the situation. One, illegal immigration. Two, carbon neutral impact. Three, unable to internally generate all the electricity required. Results, blackouts. Good job Libs! What’s next, cut back on food production? Forced sterilization via a so-called vaccine?
England used to run on coal, isn’t time to open those mines again?
National Grid (NG) has an inherent conflict of interest: they operate UK electrical power grid, including the Balancing Mechanism (BM) market, while at the same time NG owns several HVDC cables that connect UK with EU countries.
NG-operated control center decides production level (MW) for each power station in UK (that is part of the BM market) and how much will be imported from EU.
Conveniently, there is a limited auditing capability to check whether decisions made by the control center are justifiable or not.
In addition, closing of coal-fired electric power plants in UK was beneficial to the National Grid as it increased the imports from Europe through lines owned by NG.
This is just a tip of an iceberg of problems that exist in the current BM market that governs production of electricity in UK.
Here in the US blackouts should be judiciously used for the blue areas and states.
The current warm period, the Holocene, is due to end soon. “Soon” in geologic terms means any next mini-cooling period, such as the time we call the Little Ice Age, may actually develop into a full-blown 110,000-year glacial event.
Current solar cycles, cosmic radiation, volcanic activity, etc. indicate another LIA cooling period has begun. Will it be the ‘big one’?
I’ll die off, and probably everyone alive today will too, before it’s known.
Sadly, I predict lots of makeshift "heat generators" this winter, many fueled by whatever wood that can be found. Also sadly, I predict that there will be unplanned conflagrations that will displace people from their homes.
Sounds punitive to me. Why not have blackouts between 1 a.m. to 4 a.m. when most people are snuggly warm in their beds and may not even notice the power is out? Because they want you to FEEL the pain for your sins, dontchaknow? You must REPENT of your energy sins and feel the wrath of Almighty Gaia...
I thought it was Almighty Greta.
Sounds uncomfortable.
SNORT.
Bottom line: Energy is fungible, sanctions are a crock, and Ukraine is the latest scam.
How DARE you!
(j/k)
Such a decision might save $10 but reheating a cold house mught cost $20. Mearly examples of the futility of such a cure.
Looks like we need the real Tesla back from the grave. An ulimited energy potential would toss the greedy into an ass over tea kettle situation. Why, they’d hide the plans for such a thing. /sarc
Such a decision might save $10 but reheating a cold house mught cost $20. Mearly examples of the futility of such a cure.
Looks like we need the real Tesla back from the grave. An ulimited energy potential would toss the greedy into an ass over tea kettle situation. Why, they’d hide the plans for such a thing. /sarc
4 pm to 7 pm is probably expected peak demand. People getting home, warming the house back up, charging the electric car, making supper, etc.
If generating plants are short on gas, problems (and a possible crash of the entire grid) are most likely when the “draw” of power is greatest - gotta reduce demand then, somehow.
No, it generally doesn't work that way, unless you turn on really inefficient supplemental heat(ers)* to reheat the house. We studied this in both my Engineering Thermodynamics (heat transfer) coursework and in Power Systems Analysis.
*Barring that, essentially, total heat in = total heat transferred (lost) "out", and lost heat depends on insulation (including non-leaks) and the difference between the inside temperature and the outside temperature.
I suppose it is possible that if you time shift the reheating to a time when it's colder outside and a heat pump has to switch to supplemental heat, that could qualify for my "unless" above. It would depend on the details of each situation.
What are they going to turn the power plants off and let the steam cool down which will need to be heated up again before electricity is generated?
So the homes will cool down and will need extra energy to get them back up to normal temperature?
Where are the savings?
There is something called daily load curve, it shows how demand changes during 24 hours. Generally speaking, the peak is between 16:00 and 19:00.
It would not be unusual that the demand at that time is 2-3 times higher than the demand in early morning hours 1-4 am.
There is no generation shortage during the night. During cold winter days, in the afternoon, there could be a shortage of available generation, there is simply nothing else to turn on. Then the demand must be reduced because in an electric system, generation and demand must be in balance, otherwise the system could collapse.
The UK has beat Gorebull warming!!!
Although Britain does not import gas from Russian, it does import electricity and gas from European countries that rely on Russian gas.
Wonder how much the average Brit has to pay for this B$?
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