18-06-2019, 03:02 PM
(17-06-2019, 07:15 PM)Crackle Wrote: I wonder how well you can believe the figures in Terry's link.
Doing some quick sums, the total generated power at the moment I looked was 33.85Gw, and the demand was 33.1Gw.
I wonder where the surplus 3/4 of a Gw disappeared to, is somebody making a fast buck on the side.
Mike, did you freeze the page while collecting the data from as it is updated every 5 minutes. If an update occurred, that could make a difference.
One possibility is that the difference is attributable to losses in the transmission system. This means that more actual power is generated, as measured at source, than consumed by the load.
Also, bear in mind that the Interconnects are bi-directional, with zero at centre scale. At the current moment, the E-W Interconnector between Wales and Ireland is exporting 540Mw to Ireland and thus reads -0.54GW whilst we are importing 1GW via each of the French, Dutch and Belgian interconnects
Check the Info tab. Not only will you find out more about it but you will also find a contact email link.
Someone has put a lot of effort into building that site and keeping it running 365 days of the year. If there is an error, then I'm sure he would be grateful to know about it.
