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Britain strengthened its electrical exports to France on Friday, where it gave it the strong winds that were torn all over the country.
France rejected the energy it produces from its nuclear fleet of up to 4 GB – enough for millions of homes – as it imported additional electricity from Britain, according to Montels analyzes.
It highlights the variable nature of the energy system where winds and sliced solar energy are used to provide electricity to homes, companies and factories.
Winds of up to 114 miles per hour from Storm EOWYN are increasingly dependent on Britain on its neighbors to buy and sell electricity to budget an increased weather system.
Electricity supplies and demand for the second in a second, which means that in times of strong winds, Britain and other countries, they may produce more than they can use themselves.
There are a number of cables in Britain, known as the inter -links, which link their energy system to neighboring countries including France, Norway, the Netherlands and Belgium.
Jean -Paul Hariman, director of Montel Andrex, said that France entered the early hours of Friday morning exporting electricity to other countries due to the low local demand.
However, merchants began to import from Britain, as a surplus of electricity became clear. He said: “France was exporting to every country that borders it.”
Then Britain said, we do not need your strength, we want to oppose the inter -delivery. So France was already exporting and then obtained an additional strength from Britain.
“They (France) had no greater ability to export, so they rejected some nuclear power plants.”
In Britain there are now about 30 GB of wind capacity, about half of them outside, where wind speeds can rise.
If the output is very high of winds and other generators and additional energy cannot be exported, it may end in the country's national energy system operator to push wind farms to reduce their production.
As Storm EOWYN was beaten overnight, many winds in Britain had to be pushed to stop them, even with exports, according to Montess analyzes.
France's nuclear energy fleet runs EDF power giant, which also builds the first new nuclear power plant in the United Kingdom, Hinkley Point C, and you want to build a second, Sizewell C.
Nuclear power plants, which provide the majority of electricity in France, cannot be operated easily like coal -powered power plant, but the result can be adjusted to the point.
In addition to controlling its nuclear product, France has overnight electricity to pump water to electrical energy tanks, which means that it is ready to send water to produce electricity when needed.
Britain's electricity system has become more complicated by managing because it becomes more dependent on the intermittent supply of electricity than energy and solar energy.
