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Jan Rosenow

It’s done.

This is the moment Britains last remaining coal power station came off the electricity system for the final time, marking the end of 142 years of coal generating electricity in Great Britain.

HT National Grid ESO

1 October at 7:26 | Open on mastodon.energy
32 comments
Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖

@janrosenow I was expecting more theatre around this. I expected cameras in the Ratcliffe control room .. a worker turning a knob or flicking switches… a proper old fashioned dial falling back.. substation switches opening … steam venting … coal conveyor stopping .. boiler damper closing. The event deserved more than a digital display on the grid SCADA.

1 October at 7:55 | Open on mastodon.green
RolloTreadway

@christineburns @janrosenow Needs to be one of those big lever switches, the kind that mad scientists would have attached to their inventions in the old movies.

1 October at 13:12 | Open on beige.party
Albert Cardona

@janrosenow

Next up: gas and biomass.

Source: GridCarbon app.

Listing of electricity sources by GridCarbon app. Coal is way down the list at 0%, beyond the visible set.
1 October at 8:03 | Open on mathstodon.xyz
Hugh

@albertcardona @janrosenow After that, maybe we should aim to stop burning Denmark too

1 October at 8:15 | Open on techhub.social
Jesper Kamstrup Linnet
Albert Cardona

@jesper_linnet @hugh @janrosenow

Hopefully Denmark gets most of its electricity from wind – indeed the electrical cable tower icon hides the carbon cost of that source.

1 October at 9:44 | Open on mathstodon.xyz
Andy Hort

@janrosenow I'm curious. Why is solar not shown?

1 October at 8:21 | Open on mastodonapp.uk
Tony Hoyle

@Devonkiwi @janrosenow Not much commercial solar in the UK, due to the lack of sun. Wind is far more viable.. we have lots of that.

Home solar shows as reduced demand, not generation.

1 October at 9:37 | Open on toot.hoyle.me.uk
drukac

@tony @Devonkiwi @janrosenow
It was about 5% last year, which is big enough to make it into a chart. The reason it is not here is because solar PV connects via embedded generation, i.e. downstream from National Grid’s point of view.
Click on this site’s annual tab to find the 5%.
grid.iamkate.com/

This alternative dashboard explains how it uses several data sources to put the full picture together. It’s on the second header down the page:
energydashboard.co.uk/data

@tony @Devonkiwi @janrosenow
It was about 5% last year, which is big enough to make it into a chart. The reason it is not here is because solar PV connects via embedded generation, i.e. downstream from National Grid’s point of view.
Click on this site’s annual tab to find the 5%.
grid.iamkate.com/

1 October at 10:25 | Open on historians.social
Ed Davies

@Devonkiwi @The_Sun

I'm guessing a bit but I imagine it's because most solar is “embedded”, that is connected to the local distribution network rather than the grid, and not metered in real time so not directly visible to the grid operators other than as a reduction in demand. That's not just domestic solar but also commercial solar field-scale farms.

AIUI, even some relatively large wind [¹] is like that, too. E.g., I think the Burn O'Whilk farm near me (9 x 2.5 MW turbines) is not, in the strict sense, grid connected.

Therefore, the actual percentage of renewables will be a bit higher than shown here.

@janrosenow

[¹] compared to domestic-scale turbines people have in their gardens and farmers have in their fields.

@Devonkiwi @The_Sun

I'm guessing a bit but I imagine it's because most solar is “embedded”, that is connected to the local distribution network rather than the grid, and not metered in real time so not directly visible to the grid operators other than as a reduction in demand. That's not just domestic solar but also commercial solar field-scale farms.

1 October at 9:45 | Open on functional.cafe
drukac

@edavies @Devonkiwi @The_Sun @janrosenow

This is correct. Scroll down to the “Electricity Generation/Supply” section on this page for that exact explanation:
energydashboard.co.uk/data

You need to extract the data from more than one portal to combine them all. The Energy Dashboard linked above works, but I prefer @kate ’s website:

grid.iamkate.com/

1 October at 10:22 | Open on historians.social
xenogon

@Devonkiwi @janrosenow I'm also wondering why solar is not shown, though it will be v low in this weather.

1 October at 13:17 | Open on sunny.garden
Andy Hort

@xenogon @janrosenow I think my question is pretty well answered in the replies to my toot.
I had panels on my last house (8 facing west and 8 east), and it was only in winter when they really dropped off.

1 October at 15:28 | Open on mastodonapp.uk
Zach (Ela) - TechnicalOtter

@janrosenow
Wind being 35% is awesome too!
Love to see it!

1 October at 9:08 | Open on historians.social
The_Sun
RejZoR

@janrosenow Next goal, getting rid of gas generated power.

1 October at 9:54 | Open on mastodon.world
Osteopenia Powers

@rejzor @janrosenow

I like how gas and biomass dip during the night. It looks like Britain needs to develop some power storage systems, and increase renewables for the next step.

Edit: Oops. I thought the link was in this thread, but it's in an adjacent one. So here it is.
energydashboard.co.uk/data

A line graph (with legend) of UK electricity generation over a 24 hour cycle. Wind peaks in the afternoon, but stays in a narrow band between 12 and 15 gigawatts. Gas careens wildly from 11 gigawatts in the evening to 5 between 11:30 pm and 5:30 am. Nuclear is constant at just above 4. Solar shows its familiar daylight cycle, with a maximum around 1.7 gigawatts.
1 October at 13:44 | Open on newsie.social
Audubon Ballroom

@janrosenow

Your wrote:

the end

Can anyone predict the future?

1 October at 10:29 | Open on mastodon.social
StillIRise1963
Skye
Don Dubeau
Stiofán de Buitléir

@janrosenow

Remember:

1. The damage done by all that CO2 release will linger for centuries if not millenia.

2. This is only #electricity production. Don't confuse it with total energy consumption.

3. 60% of the #UK's electricity production is still contibuting to #climatecatastrophe .

1 October at 11:57 | Open on troet.cafe
ch2ds

Coal reduced but gas and import increased. Now they import coal produced energy from abroad? )
Anyway it's a step in the right direction.

1 October at 12:27 | Open on mastodon.social
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈

@janrosenow See World, if us clown British can manage it then anyone can 😀

1 October at 13:24 | Open on mastodon.social
Gnosyz 🖖:straightally:

@Lazarou
>then anyone can

unfortunately not so easy for little countries, but we are working on it.

1 October at 19:35 | Open on mastodon.ml
0.0🍾🌹: Diego Fernando

@janrosenow
Thought this was the game Satisfactory

1 October at 14:08 | Open on social.sdf.org
Dane Deasy
me-instance :heartaro:
majo hashi
Privatised Sentient Water

@janrosenow I'm probably preaching to the converted here but please everyone switch to a 100% green energy supplier.

Small acts on a mass scale can change the course of history. It also sends a message that this is what people want.

2 October at 19:02 | Open on neurodifferent.me
Bernard Sheppard

@janrosenow Jan, I only just saw this through a boost (though I knew about the switch off through other posts).

What amazes me is that here in Australia we have RWNJ COALition politicians promoting nuclear instead of renewables purportedly because it is cheaper than a transition to renewables (from a standing start - as we have NO nuclear power in AU at all).

Of course, the reason they're promoting nuclear is purely as a delaying tactic; to keep coal and gas running, and to delay the energy transition in line with the agenda of the lobbyists who drive the policy.

If nuclear was that good - cheap, reliable; why is it less than half of the energy generation compared to gas and biomass, in a country with a long history of nuclear power generation?

Because, obviously, it's neither cheap, nor particularly reliable overall, with extended plant shutdowns for overhauls and other reasons.

#auspol #energy #energymastodon #energytransition

@janrosenow Jan, I only just saw this through a boost (though I knew about the switch off through other posts).

What amazes me is that here in Australia we have RWNJ COALition politicians promoting nuclear instead of renewables purportedly because it is cheaper than a transition to renewables (from a standing start - as we have NO nuclear power in AU at all).

7 October at 7:42 | Open on mastodon.au
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