CallMeCurious Posted November 7, 2021 Share Posted November 7, 2021 8 hours ago, Happier diner said: If you read it fully you will see that the new cable(s) is for N-1 redundancy. The current single cable has enough capacity for current demand but insufficient resilience and not enough capacity if electricity demand rises due to the end of gas/oil and also EVs. The power station is often off and the island sits on the existing interconnection. The issue is that even interconnectors are not 100% reliable and therefore if we only had the one we have got we couldn't 1. Manage without the power station as back up 2. Take more renewable energy in the form of electricity. Read option 4.... N-2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo Posted November 7, 2021 Share Posted November 7, 2021 1 hour ago, Roger Mexico said: The joke though is that I believe the power we do sell to the Grid comes from the old oil-fired machinery (at Peel and the back-up at Pulrose), not from the newer gas-turbines. The older kit is quicker to start up and the less the lead-in time, the more you can sell the power at. It's not necessarily such a joke environmentally to be occasionally firing up an oil fired reserve system when there is strain on the network. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happier diner Posted November 7, 2021 Share Posted November 7, 2021 1 hour ago, CallMeCurious said: Read option 4.... N-2 I'm not sure what point you are making. The facts are. At the moment we have two options. We have a power station and an interconnector. Both can feed the whole island and often do. However if we abandoned the power station that would not be the case. We would need either another power station or another interconnector. Its not brain science! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Blonde Posted November 7, 2021 Share Posted November 7, 2021 I'm hearing no bin collections tomorrow, has this been confirmed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ham_N_Eggs Posted November 7, 2021 Share Posted November 7, 2021 30 minutes ago, James Blonde said: I'm hearing no bin collections tomorrow, has this been confirmed? Someone bin trash talking? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happier diner Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 (edited) duplicate Edited November 8, 2021 by Happier diner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happier diner Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 17 hours ago, Roger Mexico said: The joke though is that I believe the power we do sell to the Grid comes from the old oil-fired machinery (at Peel and the back-up at Pulrose), not from the newer gas-turbines. The older kit is quicker to start up and the less the lead-in time, the more you can sell the power at. 15 hours ago, pongo said: It's not necessarily such a joke environmentally to be occasionally firing up an oil fired reserve system when there is strain on the network. I dont think its quite like that but nearly right The gas turbines are big steps. The diesels are used for small steps and as demand rises they would stop and a turbine would start. Its correct that they are quick to start. Electricity supply is demand led. A gas turbines can run at any speed you like up to a maximum but as demand rises something has to kick in quickly as a power shortfall would be a disaster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.