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My wife works for Wessex water, one of the tasks she is in charge of is generator maintenance scheduling. She assures me generators will run for a month before running out of fuel, and tankers are on stand by to put fresh water points around the area.
Well that's something then
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Have they got enough MGR trains to service the powerstations anymore? When the coal stations were mothballed/decommissioned the MGR drivers were moved to other roles or retired and the rolling stock either scrapped or converted to other uses. No doubt some of the rolling stock was mothballed but would at least need a thorough service before going back into use.
I doubt it!
Could you clarify your figures please? 127TWh in 2016 (I assume you're referring to the whole year) would be 348GWh/day, more than 10 times our total electricity consumption for the year. 28GWh (here I assume you're referring to one day) is near enough our total electricity consumption for a day.
All those with Eon I received the below in email, specifically reference a question about my rates on October 6th when I change to Next Online V19. I assume this would translate across all tariff's if your uit prices are higher than the cap
Thanks for your email.
Your new Unit prices will fall in line with the SVT rates. We are working on updating these unit prices on our systems and the online app/website, so it may not show this just yet.
To clarify, your Unit prices/Standing Charges will be as follows;
Electricity
Unit Price - 34.23p/kWh
Standing Charge - 44.41p/day
Gas
Unit Price - 10.46p/kWh
Standing Charge - 28.48p/day.
I mixed up consumption per hour with consumption per day and something seems to have gone wrong with your 28GWh calculation.List of active natural gas power stations in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia
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127TWh (2016) is 14.50GWh/hour
95TWh (2020) is 10.84GWh/hour
It's gone up though, this year we're at 12.62GWh/hour.
Which difference?
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I don't understand how UK Gov had been peddling the line all summer that we're only 4% dependent on Russian gas, loads of supply bla bla bla only to reveal gas supplies are at risk in October
But that’s before the EPG reductions isn’t it? Just wondering as I got rid of my v17 fix and went back to SVT.
127TWh is 1.27x10⁵GWh
Consumption you quoted above Vs actual production.
When energy is generated it is not all used, an energy facility can scale up and down it's production but they usually run on average production figures as scaling up (or down) takes days. It is my understanding (from internal documents I'm not allowed to share) current mean output is 28GW for the last year.
There is no peddling, we only ever imported 4% of our natural gas from Russia, where as we import 38% of electricity from Europe that consists of Gas generated electricity from Russian sources (at an unknown percentage). The sources we import our electricity from are now having gas supply problems meaning our electricity supply is in jeopardy.
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They are talking about the last 10% in winter the variance between peaks will be higher especially with a world cup on the TV I guess. Its true because we trade all commodities with europe and we dont have a lot of storage, its possible ironically Germany has more gas storage then us now despite the lack of supply. Germany also has the purchasing power we dont, it might come down to the highest bidder. This is where we make the most of all that endless rain we get and turn on the hydro power turbines, except nope we didnt build them it was more hassle then importing instead of producing.
I used to walk through the trainyard at the top of the line in the Welsh valleys, coal stacked up higher then houses. That doesnt exist anymore, in Jan the welsh government outlawed the mining of Welsh coal despite it being uniquely higher quality then anything we can import & as has been known for decades Uk is failing in its energy production/self-sufficiency. I dont know they ripped up the train lines also but the trains clicking past on tracks past midnight I have not heard for years.
I used to walk through the trainyard at the top of the line in the Welsh valleys, coal stacked up higher then houses. That doesnt exist anymore, in Jan the welsh government outlawed the mining of Welsh coal despite it being uniquely higher quality then anything we can import & as has been known for decades Uk is failing in its energy production/self-sufficiency. I dont know they ripped up the train lines also but the trains clicking past on tracks past midnight I have not heard for years.
We're talking about electricity produced from gas. If we were talking about electricity generated from all sources then 28GW is about right.
Top 2 were v17 and bottom 2 are what they have changed my rates to which are the EPG rates... I'm still on v17
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Looking at yearly averages on the interconnectors doesn't seem to confirm this 38%? Or are you talking about 38% of imported electric is made with gas? We have been a net exporter of electricity since about may this year and previously it looks to me like we maybe on average imported 8% of electric
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Yes the latter, we import around 10-15% on average, so the 7% you see is probably right.