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No way on earth is inflation anywhere near 3%, at the supermarkets many items are up 50% in 2 year and still rising, we know Energy and Fuel are through the roof, so what is coming down to to get it 3% overall?
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Why has Jaguar Type 01 got huge charging flaps ( I presume) on both sides?
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Cybertruck levels of opinions for this vehicle I reckon.
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Anthony retweeted
Online advertising is starting to cross a line.
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Advertising used to sit around the content. Now it feels like the advertising is the content.
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Maddening to see the Conservatives pledging to scrap requirements for new homes to come with solar panels as standard ☀️
Solar on new homes should be a no brainier - cutting bills, and cutting our reliance on foreign oil and gas ✅
Another step backward from the Tories 🚮
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So NESO ultimately closed the gap with a huge, limit busting amount of interconnector trades whose cost is not yet known
And by paying up in the BM
We went through the peak without drama. Frequency held up fine
But we busted the interconnector trading limits (cost not yet known) and paid some tasty prices in the BM... Scroll to the bottom of the linked page and you'll see lots of trades just under £1000 /MWh
The total balancing cost so far today is £14.75 million vs an average daily cost of £2.3 million. This excludes the SO-SO interconnector trades and the BM costs between now and midnight
The system balanced but @neso_energy paid almost 6.5x more than normal to balance the grid plus the cost of the SO-SO trades AND it obliterated the intraday interconnector trading limit
And it's only the very start of winter. Demand is well down on where it will be in December /January when the daily peak will be c45 GW and cold days could be as high as 55 GW
We also don't know if the EU is going to keep allowing the interconnector trading limits to be breached. Presumably it had an objective in mind in setting the limit (it thinks system operators shouldn't interfere in the markets but should use market mechanisms to balance their grids). These objectives are not met if the limits are breached. The big unknown is whether the EU will keep giving NESO this flexibility or whether it starts to strictly enforce the limits
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@neso_energy has cancelled the EMN
Looks like demand is forecast to be lower
Outturn at 3pm was a touch down on this morning's forecast... Outturn was 614 MW lower at 3pm than forecast this morning... NESO error in our favour. Imagine if it had been the other way round 😯
Amira's demand forecast is down 84 MW at 7:30pm and 42 MW at 11pm so tiny vs the 3pm difference
I didn't note the BMRS forecast NESO uses this morning so can't say how much that changed
It will be interesting to measure outturn vs the forecast
We can also see the market is delivering imports to GB in the peak now. Looks like this is the main difference for the peak
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I had just hit post when this update hit, slightly ahead of schedule (unusually)
Also unusually, the expected shortfall has GONE UP!!
Only slightly to 1880 MW but still that's very unusual. Typically after an EMN is issued the shortfall progressively reduces as generators make more generation available, grid maintenance is moved around and some demand reductions are found
That the shortfall has increased and the EMN has been updated slightly early suggests NESO is asking the market again to look at what it can deliver
This is now officially in the energy winter (started 1 Oct) but still unusual for the time of year
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@neso_energy has another Electricity Margin Notice in place for today...
Shortfall 1840 MW for 3pm to 11pm today
This is an unusually wide timeframe covering far more than just the evening peak
So what's going on?
Wind is set to be low dipping to 1700 MW at 6pm
Solar will peak at 6758 MW at 1pm, be at 5882 MW at 3pm and zero from 7pm
Interconnectors are nominated to export the max capacity of 8756 MW between 12:30pm and 2pm. Imports and then nominated to fall to 6285 MW at 3pm, 435 MW at 5pm and then flip to exports reaching 1979 MW between 6:30pm and 7pm. Exports are then set to fall, with the cables flipping to imports of 528 MW between 8:30pm and 9pm before heading back to export mode with exports reaching 1282 MW at 10:30pm which is the last available time right now
Demand is forecast at 33,203 MW at 3pm, peaking for the evening at 33,940 MW at 7:30pm and then falling to 25,843 MW by 11pm
The grid will be tightest between 5:30pm and 8pm where NESO will need imports to meet demand
As before I expect NESO will turn to intraday SO-SO trades on the interconnectors to resolve this. It has been consistently buying back up to the cap for quite a large part of the past day and since 5:30am this morning
I expect this will continue but I also expect the cap of 1500 MW in any settlement period to be breached. Again
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Anthony retweeted
I'm not a financial guru, but we had a huge crash in 1993 & 2008. I reckon we are due one soon. Companies can't hide their downturns behind upbeat messages to bolster share values. The fuel crisis will further reduce people's spending power resulting in an economic death spiral
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Remarkable how large organisations will spend any amount fighting complaints rather than do the right thing by their customers after getting it wrong.
Yes, looking at you @ShepherdsFS
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Anyone know what Starmer, Reeves and Lammy are doing at the moment?
How have the press allowed these saboteurs to just disappear?
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First cool evening of autumn and this.. 🙄
I’m sure the EMN is a route for generators to charge extortionate rates thus keeping our energy bills high. @neso_energy
This will be cancelled later once the high price has been agreed.
There is no shortage of generation.
NESO has issued an Electricity Margin Notice for this evening’s peak period. This is a routine and precautionary operational tool, there is no risk to customer electricity supplies and Great Britain’s electricity system remains secure.
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Seems ridiculous that the critical infrastructure on and around canals is left to a charity to manage and maintain.
Anyone ever seen a charity tin rattled for this trust or donated to it?
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Even when life keeps kicking you an hour by a quiet harbour in the sun goes a long way towards a peaceful mind.
Even better with a pot of decent leaf tea. ☀️ ⛴️ ☕️
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