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Michael Langdon-Davies's avatar

Agree 'capacity approximately equal to peak demand' is a weird assertion. In a system with ccgt and batteries when there's no wind or sun, ccgt can charge batteries off-peak and then batteries can meet the peak demand (along with the same amount of ccgt) - would only need ccgt to meet mean demand not peak.

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Nickrl's avatar

thanks massively simplifies the Foundation paper which i got bogged down with and now will return back at look at certain sections. Be nice if Millibrain had tackled these areas first before firing off at all different angles although i do hope he will realise that the NESO2030 report is warning him off the 2030 goal and he resets it. There will then be an opportunity to both have a viable plan and do something about our over reliance on imports now for most of the kit creating green jobs everywhere except the UK.

By the way batteries are in the capacity market albeit derated

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