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Was ist eine Sturzflaute?
A record 20 GW wind collapse, and five 10 GW collapses in 13 days. Curtailment was hiding part of every swing. When the wind went, the balancing bill…
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Ikke i morgen. Désolé, j'annule.
How NESO spent the summer cancelling on its neighbours — a day ahead to the Nordics, at the last minute to the French, and four times more within the…
Sep 15
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The wrong type of wind
The railways had the wrong type of snow. Britain's electricity system has the wrong type of wind — and five years of half-hourly data show what it…
Sep 11
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Britain just set a curtailment record — and the forecast was never wrong
8 September cost £29.7m to manage — the most expensive day of constraint management on record, in cash and in real terms. It beat the previous record…
Sep 8
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Firmness Is a Function of the Window
Wind and solar do not have a capacity factor problem. They have a window problem — and the window that matters is a week, not an hour
Sep 8
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Britain never really switched its smart meters on. Until now.
Twenty million smart meters just started counting — and the first thing they showed was a peak that wasn't there.
Sep 2
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What Marine Le Pen could do to your electricity bill
Britain now imports more power from France than it generates from every solar panel in the country, and the arrangement governing that trade expires…
Sep 1
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August 2026
Paying for August All Year Round
My water bill far exceeds my energy bill. South West Water is fitting my smart meter, and nobody has decided what it is for.
Aug 27
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The Solar Cliff
Britain just had its brightest summer on record. Here is how much more solar it would take to switch the gas off — why the answer stops making sense…
Aug 26
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What do the school holidays do to the electricity grid?
Every weekday morning since late July, about a gigawatt has gone missing. The grid noticed before you did.
Aug 24
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The forecast is the easy part
People keep asking me how hard it is to predict what the grid will do. The harder questions are what it did yesterday, and whether a megawatt-hour made…
Aug 20
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The Great British heat annuity
'Heat or eat' is back, and No.10's answer is a block tariff. Something bolder: Great British Energy installs the heat pump against the value of the home…
Aug 17
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