{"id":346914,"date":"2024-10-15T17:30:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T15:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=346914"},"modified":"2024-10-15T17:30:58","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T15:30:58","slug":"miliband-fiddles-while-britain-faces-blackouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=346914","title":{"rendered":"Miliband Fiddles While Britain Faces\u00a0Blackouts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

h\/t Philip Bratby<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is insane!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A backstop system designed to prevent blackouts was mobilised for the first time in two years as<\/em> Britain\u2019s power grid battles low winds<\/em><\/a> and nuclear outages.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The surprise notice for the capacity market, which issues a warning to Britain\u2019s electricity generators, was issued by the <\/em>National Energy System Operator<\/em><\/a> (Neso) just after midday on Monday.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It told generators to be ready for when <\/em>demand spikes at 4:30pm<\/em><\/a>, amid fears the amount of spare power capacity had grown unacceptably small compared to demand.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the notice was withdrawn just after 2pm.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for the Neso insisted it was \u201cconfident that electricity margins are sufficient for this evening\u201d and stressed the triggering of the original notice was automatic.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The warning was the first of its kind since November 2022, when a similar notice was issued but later withdrawn as low wind speeds and nuclear power outages piled stress on the electricity system.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kathryn Porter, an independent energy analyst at Watt Logic, said the likely causes this time around were lower-than-expected wind output, as well as greater-than-expected demand for electricity.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the same time, publicly available data showed the grid was <\/em>expecting power to be flowing out to Europe via interconnectors<\/em><\/a> on Monday evening, suggesting the Neso might have had to intervene to ensure power flows into the UK instead, she added.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The warning also comes after the Sizewell B nuclear power station, in Suffolk, was temporarily shut down for refuelling on Friday.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 1.2 gigawatt site is not expected to return to full capacity until December, according to owner EDF.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/business\/2024\/10\/14\/blackout-prevention-plan-activated-britain<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

OK, there was never any chance of a blackout. The purpose of the warning is to get sufficient back up capacity in place in time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But this is still only October, and there is still a lot more wind power than we would get in a real wind drought in midwinter. Note that wind dropped to 800 MW on Sunday evening<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today wind power has fallen to 2 GW, about 7% of capacity, while demand has peaked at 35 GW \u2013 in winter that could easily rise to 45 GW or more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/bmrs.elexon.co.uk\/generation-by-fuel-type<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Interconnectors have been bringing in 4 GW, but the backbone has been 20 GW of CCGT and 4 GW of nuclear. But we already know that all the nuclear bar Sizewell B will be gone by 2028.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even supposing Miliband gets to triple wind power by 2030, that would still only give us 6 GW, at a time when demand will probably have gone up by that much as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Add to that 5 GW of biomass and other bits and pieces, and we will still be potentially 40 GW short in midwinter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile crazy Ed Miliband plays a ukulele next to a wind mill!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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