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Yes, that's right. The spot price is determined by the marginal source of electricity. That's normally gas, but is sometimes coal, imports, or pumped hydro storage. The consumer ac…

Wind farm operators sell their power onto the market (they can sell however they like, but the reference price is calculated according to the day-ahead spot price). Any imbalance b…

Offshore wind in the UK currently uses the "Contracts for Difference" payment mechanism. Operators bid to build turbines, and the best value operators get assigned areas of the sea…

Named storms often generate records for wind power generation. Even if a few turbines in the middle of the storm have to turn off, the rest of the country still gets lots more wind…

You can also view the effects of a frontpage post on HN here: http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/admin/

Teams is literally Skype for Business with a different skin, there's loads of traces of Skype left over where they haven't bothered to change the name.

I think this might have been a bad choice of words, I interpret the writer as intending "enjoyed" here to mean "to have had the use or benefit of" the warmest October, rather than …

A loaf of bread is pretty conveniently 2000 calories, and costs £0.40 if you buy a cheap one. Less nutritious than a potato though!

It's called road tax because you need to pay it before you can take your vehicle on the road. You can own a car and keep it in your garage and you don't have to pay any tax on it -…

I am sorry but you are wrong about road tax - the name "road tax" never existed in the law, the tax that became VED was always legally called something else. Calling a fee required…

One subsidy, there are still big subsidies on leasing electric cars (no tax or employment tax has to be paid on this), as well as zero road tax, fuel tax and other incentives. Elec…

Yep, unfortunately the network and folder loading code is really slow in Claws. There's lots of scope for improvement but no real development effort towards it - a few years ago I …