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I did a snapshot of 15:30 - 16:30 with all the plants that were running if that's any use? https://terravolt.co.uk/uncategorized/uk-power-plant-snapshot-1530-1630-10-04-2023/ (Beware National Grids definition of 'other' - it covers all sorts including grid battery's and aggregated systems (Virtual P...

Yes it's all a bit woolly when it's mild.
Just so you know, the BM Reports portal your viewing that on is getting killed off this year.
Replaced with: https://bmrs.elexon.co.uk/wind-generation

Nothing to add really other than I'm happy Terravolt has proven useful/reliable for people.

a bit late but we do have quite a lot of inertia only plants up and running - with more being built:

Right this is a bit of a crash course in the Balancing system so here goes. Generation (& to an extent demand but not going into that) can participate in the balancing system but to do so they need to supply a constant stream of data (in half hour chunks) as to: What their Import Capacity is (MI...

Details https://www.power-technology.com/market ... system-uk/
It was running last night @40MW around 5.30pm.

I only come out the woodwork when my site gets mentioned! Yesterday Ratcliffe had 3 Coal units on but by 2pm one of them had tripped. None of the other Coal ones were fired up so we had a bit of wiggle room left. As did a fair amount of the OCGT fleet and about half dozen of CCGT plants. We did mana...

No problem, I'm not here much so I've honestly not noticed to be honest!

Yes we do quite regularly import from Orkney. They have a fairly slick Network Management system which keeps shuffling generation & loads around different zones to make the most of the connections they have. You can watch it live here: SSE Live Data Orkney which is basically where I get the info...

Sure I saw 19.77GW wind at some point but didn't get chance to screenshot it.
We still have the obscure Belgium > UK > France power loop going on again which I find amusing.