31st January 2019 at 10.18.
A cold day in the UK today.
Not much sun. Not much wind.
The demand on the national grid is currently 47.32GW.
This is being met as follows:
| Coal | 11.5% |
| Nuclear | 14.7% |
| Gas | 51.4% |
| Wind | 3.49% |
| Pumped storage | 0.49% |
| Hydro | 1.54% |
| Biofuel | 5.6% |
| Solar | 3.8% |
| Fr Interconnector | 3.7% |
| Dutch Interconnector | 0.95% |
| Irish Interconnector | 0.36% |
| E-W Interconnector | 0.19% |
The Government has decided to close all coal powered power stations by 2025. How will we cope without them on cold, winter days in future?
In other news, I note that there has been a major gas find in the North Sea. Perhaps we should build a few more gas power stations to use this local source of energy.
Yr Hen Ddyn Grwgnachlyd 