National Grid warns Britons of blackouts on ‘really cold’ evenings

[gas112]

You chaps do realise that gasometers were all about coal gas don't you . . . . . Oh, never mind.

oh ffs no they werent they had natural gas in them since the days north sea gas come ashore you really are badly informed

 

[Dork Lard]

The price is what it is

This winter people will die because they cannot afford to heat their homes. The price does not reflect what it is.

 

[gas112]

This winter people will die because they cannot afford to heat their homes. The price does not reflect what it is.

stick a jumper on ,

 

[ellal]

eh 4% shortfall is relatively easy to make up from various sources such as the new long term LNG contracts signed with US , Quatar etc . The price is what it is

You do realise that the price has rocketed from wherever it comes from don't you?

So 4% or 40% is irrelevant!

 

[ajohn]

So 4% or 40% is irrelevant!

Actually I suspect that the problem petro product is diesel. Our own diesel refining topped out yonks ago. Around the time it started getting more expensive than petrol.

 

[gas112]

I will bet everything I own, against everything you own.

looks like your going to be skint then
the gas holders stored natural gas from when we started using it so no they were not just to do with coal gas , it was part of our job to check the levels and open up the valves to pump them back . They started to get de commissioned on mass around 2000 when they decided to store more gas within the pipe network

 

[gas112]

You do realise that the price has rocketed from wherever it comes from don't you?

So 4% or 40% is irrelevant!

so what has price got to do with it ? we are paying more for the other 96% we have access to

 

[ajohn]

the gas holders stored natural gas from when we started using it

You don't know about the other type that was constructed then?

 

[gas112]

You don't know about the other type that was constructed then?

you mean the spiral ones that came on line in 1980 ? that didnt need the framework ? 3 years after the final town to nat gas conversion

 

[IT Minion]

"An official with the Electric Reliability Council of Texas said Tuesday afternoon that 16 gigawatts of renewable energy generation, mostly wind generation, were offline. Nearly double that, 30 gigawatts, had been lost from thermal sources, which includes gas, coal and nuclear energy.

By Wednesday, those numbers had changed as more operators struggled to operate in the cold: 45 gigawatts total were offline, with 28 gigawats from thermal sources and 18 gigawatts from renewable sources, ERCOT officials said.

“Texas is a gas state,” said Michael Webber, an energy resources professor at the University of Texas at Austin."

While Webber said all of Texas’ energy sources share blame for the power crisis, the natural gas industry is most notably producing significantly less power than normal.

“Gas is failing in the most spectacular fashion right now,” Webber said.

It was mostly a failure of the Gas system.

 

[gas112]

It was mostly a failure of the Gas system.

so glad you agree it wasnt just a handful of turbines that failed

 

[IT Minion]

so glad you agree it wasnt just a handful of turbines that failed

What a stupid thing to say.

 

[gas112]

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