UK Wind Record

[Joeboy]

Happy new yr everybody.

What a nice present for New Year. Wind over 50% but curtailed, the interconnectors exporting all the FF are producing, Octopus Agile gone negative

Wow Ken, 3.7GW of export to mainland Europe, and only 22GW of demand at the moment. Everyone else still in bed?

Yep, just getting up! Off out gold panning. Happy New Year lads. I love the idea of Norway and its hydro acting as a store. More countries need to do this. Storage is key. I hope we see some large scale uk storage projects, soon.

[Ken]

Happy new yr everybody.

What a nice present for New Year. Wind over 50% but curtailed, the interconnectors exporting all the FF are producing, Octopus Agile gone negative

It is a happy new year!
Where do you find out if wind is being curtailed? I see that pumped storage is doing nothing just now, so I guess they must be full up...
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I follow this https://www.bmreports.com/bmrs/?q=gener ... t/out-turn

The wind prediction is fairly accurate but when you see a high peak prediction particularly at times of low demand like now and nights you see a departure of production from prediction. This also coincides with low gas production essentially on tick over and low imports/exports as at present.
The Nat Grid have on numerous occasions this yr limited wind to c12GW (that which they measure and control) and this is all about overall grid stability.

I think you could argue that we were 100% clean electricity consumption this morning as we were exporting more than we were producing from FF gas. I think this is a first?

What would have happened if HPC was producing - curtailment like never before. Shows why nuclear will not work-no flexibility.

[nowty]

Not a high wind record but we look like entering a week of very low wind, its about to fall off the cliff and stay there for a few days. Luckily the coldest days look like being over the weekend when demand is generally less. But its one of those times when the UK is running with very little reserve capacity.

[nowty]

And down she goes,

I hope we don't fall out with our neighbours, the interconnectors are importing almost as much as the whole UK Nuclear fleet is generating.

[marshman]

Good job the sun is shining ! Nice that someone has highlighted "low wind generation", makes a change from the "look how much renewables are generating". Naff all reserve capacity - everything else is running quite "hard", 2.28GW coal, 0.38GW OCGT. I assume pumped storage is full as that has just kicked in and contributing a little bit.

As you say looks like low wind is here for a few days, not just in the UK but across Europe. Wind is currently at 0.75GW so even 10 times current capacity wouldn't cut it and how much storage are you going to need to cover a couple of weeks of low wind at this time of year?

This site gives a good visual pic of wind speeds across the whole of Europe.

https://www.windy.com/?2022011912,43.580,12.612,3

[marshman]

11:53 and wind is now down to 580MW, at the moment solar is 3.4GW

[ecogeorge]

6.22pm and demand at 44.7GW ....... weve even rolled out oil and cgt at 1GW !!!

[AE-NMidlands]

pumped and other Hydro delivering 2.9 gW though...
What is "Other?" Diesel generators on farms?
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[Moxi]

Could others include cho units but NIC anaerobic digester gas ?

Moxi

[Moxi]

Could others include chp units burning anaerobic digester gas ?

Moxi