Christmas day extremes

Eddie Zedder

Eddie Zedder

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1pm, enjoying a superb turkey dinner with the family (cooked by me) :),

6pm watching this lot for the next 12 hours, keeping the Christmas lights on :thumbsup:.

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You had to work???? I hope they looked after you pennies wise Bryan.
 
I feel your pain. In 42 years of work there were very few Christmases when I didn't work some part of Christmas day or Boxing Day. But it comes to an end....eventually!
 
Althulas said:
Hope your shift goes quickly.
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It was a long day yesterday, 22.5 hours from getting up until hitting the pillow this morning. On the good side, I now have 11 days off and will hopefully find time to get the Zed out for some fun.:thumbsup:
 
Grumps said:
You had to work???? I hope they looked after you pennies wise Bryan.
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Unfortunately not Dave, just a normal day. The tight sods didn't even give us a hamper this year because they'd overspent on the maintenance budget by £3m :wideyed:.
 
Bumpa said:
I feel your pain. In 42 years of work there were very few Christmases when I didn't work some part of Christmas day or Boxing Day. But it comes to an end....eventually!
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s***, that's a bummer. 2021 is my next full Christmas & Boxing day off.
 
I've been to work too :(
My next day off is Sunday :p
Never mind I've got the last week of January off work :)
 
Another christmas shift out of the way. At least you missed the power demand bump after the Queen at 3pm. Somebody else must have been peddling furiously then.

Impressive christmas tree lights you've got there. No big red All Stop button though.
 
Redline said:
And it says on it - "Press for Black Start"?
Maybe not. =))
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It's in the pipeline, if National Grid can make their minds up!
 
Eddie Zedder said:
It's in the pipeline, if National Grid can make their minds up!
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I saw the ITT for it. I guess they're planning for a major network incident. I can imagine a major problem could take days to recover from. You can't drop the whole of the network load onto generation in one go.
Even doing a single site black start I suspect can't be a simple exercise. Getting sync etc. Not just like switching on the lights.
 
They're looking at a number of sites at present, ours being one of them. With the closure of the coalers and the remainder to go in the next few years they will have lost a lot of black start capability. They plan to have banks of 3-4mw diesel generators in strategic areas around the country.

As you say, if the grid were to go down it would be a logistical nightmare getting it back up and running. Let's hope it never comes to that!
 
I am a electrical engineer in the water industry we have a number 1.5 Mega watt generators which feed back in to the grid we have been asked to make them available at very short notice in January /February and when they say short notice they mean 10 mins luckily they auto sync !
 
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