UK announces commercial operations of longest land/subsea interconnector

Post by 0xDEADFED5 » Sat, Dec 30, 2023, 4:08 AM UTC

fbdab103 wrote: post #55

WJW wrote: post #39

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There's only three possible outcomes that have any chance of being true and none of them are good: - It was the Russians, and the demands by the public to respond might escalate the current situation from a nice contained proxy war into something that might get actual voters killed. - It was the Ukrainians, which would be politically awkward because we're supposed to be allies. - It was the USA, which would also be p…

Not sure it had to be a state operation. The attack could have been done by just a handful of guys with practically no funding. The pipe is not that deep underwater and would not require much incentive to blow.

Post by dubcanada » Sat, Dec 30, 2023, 4:18 AM UTC

cbzoiav wrote: post #89

trebligdivad wrote: post #85

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Meh we're down to 1.1% of generation being coal in the last year; low enough to stop worrying about. Lets worry about how to get rid of the 33.5% of gas!

We've gone over a month without burning any coal, but then the Ukraine war happened and we were at risks of blackouts. That 1.1% is likely heavily concentrated as a much higher percentage on a relatively small days over winter and/or where wind levels were low. We probably want to be sure if gas imports are heavily hit again or a major interconnector goes down we'll be fine before entirely demolishing it.

Post by petermonsson » Sat, Dec 30, 2023, 5:46 AM UTC

lewj wrote: post #67

petermonsson wrote: post #57

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There is a 20 hour time difference from when the wind picks up in the UK until the wind picks up in Denmark

source? interested for the details please.

Post by wifnxiwjfn » Sat, Dec 30, 2023, 6:42 AM UTC

Post by askvictor » Sat, Dec 30, 2023, 7:10 AM UTC

KaiserPro wrote: post #40

The good thing about this is that its bidirectional, so can be used to offload ~4.2% of the total generation capacity of the UK, or should they need it, import that amount. That should also cut the tops and bottoms off the spot price of electricity.