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Candles will they soon be needed?!<\/p><\/div>\n

How close has the UK been to power cuts this week?\u00a0 Pretty close seems to be the answer, or at least of it not power cuts then reducing the voltage so the lights dim.\u00a0 First national grid told everyone to crank out the power, then later it issued a statuary demand-side balancing reserve (DSBR) notice after issuing a notification of inadequate system margin (NISM).\u00a0 The DSBR means large industrial users voluntarily reduce their demand (in return they normally pay a discount for the electricity they use).\u00a0 This apparently was the first time its ever been issued.\u00a0 In the end peak demand at 17:00 was met partly by buying power from one supplier at 250p\/unit!<\/p>\n

There are number of things to say.\u00a0 First everyone blames renewables.\u00a0 Its true Wednesday was very dull, often foggy and still.\u00a0 There is so much wind capacity on the grid its often meeting 12-15% of demand now according to one analyst.\u00a0 Of course most of the time this demand is less than peak demand so the wind output can be quite low yet still do quite well % wise.\u00a0 As it happens on Wednesday when the notices were issued I was in the central belt in Scotland and many of the wind turbines were working quite well.\u00a0 (I remember being surprised since I could not see any movement in the trees).\u00a0 At 17:00 there will not be any solar since its dark.\u00a0 However, the real reason could be seen on the NETA electricity pages. \u00a0 On Tuesday a number of coal and gas fired power stations went of line due to break downs.\u00a0 This tightened margins making power cuts more likely.\u00a0 Ultimately though whilst managing the grid in the age of renewables is more challenging its not impossible and the countries where there are outages generally don’t have much renewable power.<\/p>\n

Are there going to be power cuts?\u00a0 Probably not, but I would not bet on it.\u00a0 One thing working in national grids favour is demand is falling.\u00a0 A mixture of more energy efficient devices and higher electricity prices are meaning we are all using less.\u00a0 Our book offers suggestions on how to do even more.\u00a0 There is one final lesson we have seen a bit of yesterday which happened in California when they had outages, that is electricity prices surge.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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