Posted on 12/02/2016 4:45:56 PM PST by Lorianne
Power cuts in France are more likely this winter because of problems with electricity cables linking the country to the United Kingdom and prolonged outages at nuclear reactors, French power grid operator RTE said on Thursday.
RTE warned in November it could impose cuts this winter due to shortages caused by a record number of nuclear reactors being offline for maintenance or safety checks.
Britain's National Grid, which operates the 2,000 megawatt (MW) Interconnexion France-Angleterre (IFA) with RTE, said on Tuesday that four of its eight cables had been severed, cutting capacity by 50 percent until the end of February.
"The latest assessments based on information provided by electricity generators on November 28 have confirmed the prospect of resorting to exceptional, incremental measures in order to deal with a cold spell or contingencies in generation capacity," RTE said on its website on Thursday.
RTE, which had been counting on France's capacity to import up to 12,200 MW of power, said the updated analysis factored in a reduction in the amount of electricity it will be able to import, as well as lower projected supply from neighbours.
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Freezing in the dark?
Plenty of money for muslim immigrants on welfare through...
SEVERED??? Nigel, what have you been up to?
>Plenty of money for muslim immigrants on welfare through...
Yep. Retards and morons hang together.
I got it! Build more windmills!
Build more nuclear windmills.
Build more nuclear windmills.
Frozen frog legs.
“... four of its eight cables had been severed, cutting capacity by 50 percent....”
Even if they weren’t bright enough to “discover” that 4 of the 8 cables had been severed, they did get the percentage of the reduction right!
HOW were four cables severed and WHO did the damage?
Power generation in France is 75% nuclear, which (I think) is the highest anywhere. France has long had a policy of national energy security. so dependence on the UK link is untypical (more likely to be the other way round, since large parts of the UK power generation sector are owned by Electricité de France!)
Yes I know. They have like 60% of their nuke generation offline right now. My comment was sarcasm.
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