NESO issues first Electricity Capacity Market Notice for two years

InvertedVee

The margin between demand and capacity at 1630 today will fall to a level low enough to have triggered the first ECMN since November 2022.

NESO statement on Twitter at 1224 today: NESO is confident that electricity margins are sufficient for this evening. However, a capacity market notice (CMN) has been triggered by the automated system.

More here: https://gbcmn.nationalenergyso.com/

Phones4Chris

And they've recently shut the last coal powered station!

Scot_39

That's what happens when  greens have us trying to rely on unreliable inconsistent  generation sources like wind without storage.

Interconnects currently net 3GW - importing 4 exporting 1 to Ireland


Currently wind generating just 3.1GW of UKs 37 GW demand.

Netexporter

Scot_39 said:

That's what happens when  greens have us trying to rely on unreliable inconsistent  generation sources like wind without storage.

Interconnects currently net 3GW - importing 4 exporting 1 to Ireland


Currently wind generating just 3.1GW of UKs 37 GW demand.

But the Green Party hasn't been in power for the past 14 years, so you can't blame them for the lack of a coherent energy strategy.

Nuclear has been significantly down, the past few days, but you don't mention that.

Great that we've got interconnectors. They work both ways!

Phones4Chris

Netexporter said:

Scot_39 said:

That's what happens when  greens have us trying to rely on unreliable inconsistent  generation sources like wind without storage.

Interconnects currently net 3GW - importing 4 exporting 1 to Ireland


Currently wind generating just 3.1GW of UKs 37 GW demand.

But the Green Party hasn't been in power for the past 14 years, so you can't blame them for the lack of a coherent energy strategy.

Nuclear has been significantly down, the past few days, but you don't mention that.

Great that we've got interconnectors. They work both ways!

He wasn't talking about the "party", but such policies in general, and you've just broken forum rules by bringing the last 14 years into it !!!

InvertedVee

Notice has been withdrawn now https://gbcmn.nationalenergyso.com/

Reed_Richards

That must be my solar panels doing particularly well today and making up for the lack of wind!

Netexporter

The irony is that it is both sunny and windy in Mid Wales but we're a bit short of both solar and wind generation.

griffb

Netexporter said:

Nuclear has been significantly down, the past few days, but you don't mention that.

Four nuclear reactors currently out of service for refuelling or maintenance. All expected back online by end of year

https://www.edfenergy.com/energy/power-station/daily-statuses

MP1995

Heysham 1 & Hartlepool are due to shutdown early 2026 with Heysham 2 & Torness shutdown in 2028.

Ectophile

It's not the green's fault we don't have anywhere near enough storage.  That's market forces.