camelot-forum.co.uk

Use this and look at Ireland at the moment and the number of powercuts.

I'm reading 800,000 disconnections across the Ireland - that's 1 in 3 customers. Wind curtailment makes balancing difficult enough in a storm - losing so much demand can't really help - and predicting "catch-up" demand when customers are reconnected can't be easy either. Who'd be a grid balancing engineer eh?

https://powercheck.esbnetworks.ie/index.html

dan_b wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2025 2:24 pm Use this and look at Ireland at the moment and the number of powercuts.

I'm reading 800,000 disconnections across the Ireland - that's 1 in 3 customers. Wind curtailment makes balancing difficult enough in a storm - losing so much demand can't really help - and predicting "catch-up" demand when customers are reconnected can't be easy either. Who'd be a grid balancing engineer eh?

https://powercheck.esbnetworks.ie/index.html

I can imagine that repearing downed lines makes for big swings in demand! Obviously it is zero for all the houses cut off, then as soon as they're reconnected they heat/cook at max capacity simultaneously!

Hope everyone on here is OK - it's been pretty wild up in Northumberland - met office highest predicted gusts today was 83mph and it felt like it. Probably the highest I've ever seen. So far only the washing airer has succumbed - should have brought it in - Doh!

Also loads of powercuts in the area - all the rest of the family in the area have been cut off

Fence and posts away, at back garden,to be honest the posts rotted at the ground level, despite concrete shaped to shed water, subsequent wind damage wrecked panels, approx 17 years old so not too bad…

New hit and miss style going in instead

I ran the inverter generator ( no storage for me yet)this morning to warm any oils up in prepertion of a power outage

For N Scotland https://powertrack.ssen.co.uk/powertrack do a good tracker that shows the boundaries of the areas affected. You can clearly see the path of the storm. Thankfully the work done post storm Arwen means that most trees that might fall on power lines have already been felled.

Village (sorta) one mile from me had a mini tornado do its worse and wreck quite a few houses.
Literally yards past the epicentre, not a single thing damaged.
Locals deserve a good pat on the back, Trades and others turned up immediately to help, really nice to see such community spirit in action.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceve01x24kyo

Last storm every house (5) surrounding mine damaged, this time even the recycling bags stayed at home, despite stronger winds. Quite bizarre.
Hope everybody on the forum ok

Has Fintray or Fuel the burn posted since the storm ? I’ve looked and could have missed posts but I don’t think they have, hope they are ok ?

Moxi

Moxi wrote: ↑Sat Jan 25, 2025 12:22 pm Has Fintray or Fuel the burn posted since the storm ? I’ve looked and could have missed posts but I don’t think they have, hope they are ok ?

Moxi

Hi Moxi, Thanks for your thoughts but all ok in this corner of NE Scotland, there was some fair gusts but nothing too bad, some small branches around the garden but no parts of the house missing!

That’s good to hear, hopefully FTB will be along at some point too. I’ve just been hosing salt spray off the windows and solar panels - we are around 3 miles inland and 300 meters above sea level but I reckon you could scrape the salt off the windows and sprinkle it on your chips if you were minded to, they were opaque before.

Moxi

Moxi wrote: ↑Sat Jan 25, 2025 1:36 pm I’ve just been hosing salt spray off the windows and solar panels - we are around 3 miles inland and 300 meters above sea level but I reckon you could scrape the salt off the windows and sprinkle it on your chips if you were minded to, they were opaque before.

Moxi

My mums house, south of Preston has some salt on its north facing upstairs windows, looked like dust but, but did the lick test and its definitely salty. The nearest sea is about 15 miles away to the west.