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On Friday, Britain increased its export of electricity to France, as strong winds that broke throughout the country gave it excess energy supply.
France rejected the power that produces from its nuclear fleet for as many as 4 gigavate – enough for millions of homes – as much as it imported additional electricity from Britain, according to Montel Analytics.
It emphasizes the variable nature of the electricity system because occasional winds and solar energy are used to provide electricity with homes, companies and factories.
The winds of up to 114mph from Storm Eowyn also show the growing British addiction to their neighbors to buy and sell electricity to balance the electricity system dependent on time.
The offer and demand for electricity must be harmonized by secondary, which means that at the time of strong winds, Britain and other countries, it could produce more than they can use themselves.
Britain has a number of cables known as interconnectors, which connect their electricity system with neighboring countries, including France, Norway, the Netherlands and Belgium.
Jean-Paul Harreman, director of Montel Analytics, said that France had entered the early hours of Friday morning by exporting electricity to other countries for its own low domestic demand.
But traders soon began to import themselves from Britain because its current became clear. “France exported to every country bordering,” he said.
“Then Britain said, we don’t need your power, we want to reverse the interconnector. So France has already exported and then got extra power from Britain.
“They [France] They had no more export capacity, so they rejected some of the nuclear power plants. ”
Britain now has about 30 gigavate wind capacity, about half of which is at sea, where wind speed can become very high.
If the exit is too high from the wind and other generators, and the additional power cannot be exported, the national energy system operator in the country can eventually pay wind farms to suppress its product.
As Storm Eowyn hit overnight, several wind farms in Britain had to be paid to exclude, even exports, according to Montel Analytics.
The French Nuclear Energy Fleets run the State Energy DIV EDF, which also builds the first new nuclear power plant in the generation, Hinkley Point C, and wants to build the second, Sizewell C.
Nuclear power plants, which supply most of French electricity, cannot be easily turned on and excluded like a gas or coal power plant, but the output can be adjusted to the point.
In addition to adjusting his nuclear output, France used electricity overnight to pump the water to the hydroelectric power plant, which means that they are ready to ship water to produce electricity when needed.
The British electricity system becomes more complex to control because it becomes more dependent on the occasional supply of electricity than wind and solar energy.
