Gas Consumption Even Worse Yesterday.

 

Courtesy of GridWatch: Go look at their website

How did we do on the first really cold day nationwide?

Well, here's yesterday's energy chart. Solar is limited (as it always is in the UK in Winter) to a small contribution for a limited amount of time. Wind has reduced to about 10% of energy production and gas is up to 60% at the end of the day. Considering the number of offshore wind farms that blight the horizon and provide hazards to shipping off our coast, you'd think it would be more. But renewables.

Nuclear, the grey smudge at the bottom is helping. Coal (in black) started strong in the morning considering we only have a handful of stations left and contributed throughout the day. 

Interesting is the pink smudge in the evening. That's us supplying energy to France.

Don't forrget this is only electricity production. Direct burning of gas in boilers is not counted. This is Gridwatch's data, so this is electrical energy on the grid for the day.

That's a heck of a lot of very expensive gas....