Quick, somebody alert the High Commissioner for Environmental Scolding.
Posted on 09/07/2021 8:36:50 AM PDT by Bearshouse
The UK fired up an old coal power plant on Monday to meet its electricity needs.
Warm, still, autumn weather has meant wind farms have not generated as much power as normal, while soaring prices have made it too costly to rely on gas.
As a result, National Grid ESO - which is responsible for balancing the UK's electricity supply - confirmed coal was providing 3% of national power.
It said it asked EDF to fire up West Burton A, which had been on standby.
On Tuesday, the use of coal returned to 2.2% of the UK's electricity generation.
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Anyone ring prince charles yet?
Quick, somebody alert the High Commissioner for Environmental Scolding.
Ruined her childhood.
Again.
Remember in the late 70s and early 80s when the British Labour Party tied themselves to the Coal unions to attack Thatcher? If Arthur Scargill and Neil Kinnock had their way, coal would still be 50% of UK energy.
What strikes me once again, is how utterly hypocritical the Left can be.
In a way, young Greta Thunberg is like old Joe Biden. Both people would have been much better off had they been left alone. Greta to grow up like a normal person, Joe to just sit on his back porch and watch the grass grow.
Unfortunately, both of them are being manipulated by puppeteers.
Now that China has tole him to Pound Sand and Walkaway Joe has done so much to cement US/UK relations.
I can’t help but wonder how long before John F. Kerry jets over to England to hector them about “carbon emission’s
Does ‘on standby’ mean idling? I had read that one of the consequences of the shift to wind was that voal plants still had to run, albeit at a lower rate, to be able to quickly ramp up when needed.
They killing da Erf!...................
You don’t just “fire up” a cold coal fired plant. There is the warm up which make take a day, pressure raising, pre-warming the turbine, then rolling the turbine, getting it slowly up to speed, then connecting to the line making sure the “phase angles” match.
Gas turbines are easier to start up.
time to buy coal stock?
I think I recently read that New Zealand is in the same boat.
Or shake them down on some stupid 'carbon credit' scam...
I live on the Ohio river. I have had some of the lowest electric rates in the world because the electricity I buy is generated by coal fired plants nearby on the Ohio. They burn W. Va. Coal dug 100 miles away. Obama’s promise to bankrupt these plants is ongoing. Three, within 50 miles of me, have closed in the last five years. You don’t fire these three back up because they are all in the process of demolition.
Biden probably doesn’t think so. To the extent that he is even capable of thinking. If Biden had had a “normal” life, he would have struggled to support himself as a third (at best) rate lawyer. As a venal hack, he is completely unencumbered with a conscious or any vestigial ethics.
It was not Obama that killed WV coal. It was FRACKING NATURAL GAS that made it so plentiful and cheap that shut down the coal fired plants.
Burning natural gas is cheaper than running the Seabrook, NH nuclear plant built in the 1980’s. The only thing cheaper/KHW than natural gas are the hydro electric plants at places like Niagara Falls.
We have over 200 years worth of natural gas in the shale formations from NY, PA, OH & WV. Imagine how cheap gas would be IF Cuomo had not banned fracking in NYS.
Instead of running buses, UPS, Amazon vans on batteries they should all be run on natural gas. However, seeing that the electricity comes from burning natural gas, indirectly these vehicles run on NG too.
For any utility connected to the electric grid the old rule for reliability was that the utility had to have a “spinning reserve” equal to the largest unit on-line. This meant that if your biggest plant kick off there was enough steam and mechanical inertia to more or less immediately pick up the slack.
An AC generator can be connected to the grid and only be supplying a tiny fraction of its available power. This is controlled by the phase angle between the grid and the generator. If the generator’s phase leads the grid’s it supplies power. When a large power source drops off the grid, its phase lag, and the “spinning reserve” automatically kicks in. In order to maintain the power, more steam is required, which means more fuel is required, but shut downs and transients are avoided.
Of course in our modern times concepts like reliability and spinning reserve are so 20th Century.
old King Coal comes thru again...
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