https://www.netzerowatch.com/coal-keeps-lights-on-at-cop26-as-low-wind-strikes-again/
Minimum wind generation coincided neatly with peak demand, and as a result system prices reached stunning levels, with a maximum of just over £4,000 a megawatt hour, nearly 100 times the wholesale price normal before the current crisis started
When these remaining fossil fuel generators are no longer on the system the costs of securing supply will rise still further.
Thanks much cfdr,
We are in the early stages of learning a very tough lesson............that is not teaching very much at this point because the ones that need to learn are in total denial.
They insist absurdly, that the solution to the problem is that we need more of what's causing the problem. Crazy.
Dense, reliable, abundant fossil fuels that serve as their own battery cannot be mostly replaced by diffuse, unreliable fake green energy that still has no effective way to be stored.
The laws of physics and energy will win over politics in the end.
Here's a discussion that relates to this and the extremely high prices for natural gas from a few minutes ago.