Cold day, burning coal

[JohnD]

More good news about UK energy absence-of-policy.

Here we are in a not-very-cold winter. We've had a couple of chilly snowy days.

And now we're running out of gas.

Our huge national Storage Facility was recently closed FFS!

Gas-fired power stations may be asked to reduce output or shut down.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43229297

https://www.ft.com/content/de6b2f96-1ca3-11e8-956a-43db76e69936

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/b...-david-davis-latest-uk-leave-eu-a8183706.html

I've just had a great idea.

We could get together and choose some people to be responsible for running the country. We could select them on the basis of not being incompetent half-wits. We would not give them the job just because they were Old Etonians with silly voices who'd been to Oxford. Any of them who fail to do the job due to being idiots could be sacked and fined of whatever they'd been paid.

We could have a "National Choosing Day" every few years.

How does that sound?

 

[Brigadier]

Great.
Can I vote for you?

 

[Nozzle]

The Red Team won't be any better at running it than the Blue team, I don't know why you're so convinced that they are. Personally, I'd much rather have people with an education to govern and to represent the UK on the global stage rather than a dullard with a chip on their shoulder.

Besides, it's civil servants that run "the place", not ministers nor the electorate.

I personally think government be it, red or blue, should have more scientists and engineers and people who've come from some other background than politics, and fewer PSE graduates.

I also think a good proportion of the problem we see at the local level in our towns and cities are a direct result of local and county councilers being affliated with partisan politics. Get rid of Red/Yellow/Blue at local level and the art of governing will work better.

Nozzle

 

[JohnD]

08:54 National Grid has a requirement to buy locational gas. Shippers are requested to post offers on the OCM locational market at all locations

06:14 National Grid is scaling back off-peak exit capacity within all NTS Exit Zones for Gas Day 01/03/2018, effective time 13:00 with an OCF of 0. NTS Exit Zones details can be found on http://www2.nationalgrid.com/uk/ind...em-operations/capacity/constraint-management/

05:48 National Grid has issued Gas Deficit Warning for Gas Day 01/03/2018. Please see Prevailing View for the latest Supply/Demand position. This warning has been issued in response to a series of significant supply losses resulting in a forecast end of day supply deficit. National Grid will consider any user offers for single or multiple day trades via the OTC or OCM, and any Demand Side Response offers made via the OCM. Note OTC offers can only be made by non OCM subscribers.

http://mip-prod-web.azurewebsites.net/PrevailingView/Index

 

[JohnD]

Graph:

Demand greater than Supply.

http://mip-prod-web.azurewebsites.n...ingViewGraph=ForecastGraph&gasDate=2018-03-01

 

[Nozzle]

You see?? All very a-political. You can't even blame it on brexit, though I have every confidence you'll attempt it.

Nozzle

 

[JohnD]

This was a totally foreseeable crisis. Who's in charge of running the country and setting the energy policy?

"FT Energy Correspondent August 16, 2017
A decision to close permanently the UK’s largest natural gas storage site will leave the country more dependent on imports and greater volatility in prices in winter months, an alliance of energy companies has warned."

"The Energy & Utilities Alliance (EUA), a trade body whose members include SSE, EDF Energy and ScottishPower, is pressing for a Parliamentary inquiry into the long-term consequences of the closure of Centrica’s Rough storage site off the Yorkshire coast.
Rough had been partially closed for the past year but Centrica announced in June that it would shut the site altogether, warning that the 32-year-old facility was at the end of its design life and could no longer be operated safely.
The British Gas-owner added that a refurbishment of Rough would “not be economic”. Rough accounts for more than 70 per cent of the UK’s gas storage capacity and could meet 10 per cent of daily peak winter demand for nearly three months."

"The government is so far untroubled about Centrica’s decision and says the UK has already coped without the facility during previous periods of closure. "

https://www.ft.com/content/564a1ec0-8288-11e7-a4ce-15b2513cb3ff

 

[IWalkLikeHimaMartian]

.. You can't even blame it on brexit,

This was a totally foreseeable crisis. Who's in charge of running the country and setting the energy policy?

The government are too busy with Brexit to think about mundane chores, such as running the country.

 

[Notch7]

We could select them on the basis of not being incompetent half-wits

Like Diane Abbott?

Perhaps we could select them on not being terrorist sympathisers

Or maybe we could rule out any that think crackpot socialist regimes like Cuba are 'champions of social justice'

 

[Notch7]

This was a totally foreseeable crisis

has been for decades

like the NHS......