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We are not the BEST commissioning engineers on the British power system, but we are in the top two 💁🏻♂️
!⃝ 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺 𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 ⚡️👆🏻
I’ve been in electricity supply since my teens. One of my stock phrases was “come the blackout - there’ll be a reckoning!” I’ve been saying it for years, in jest ofc. Now with all the armchair experts on socials, people are repeating it. My tongue in cheek quip gone mainstream 😳
James Watson CEng, FIET retweeted
132kV Wood Poles are not uncommon. You see some of them in Northern England anyway.
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We lost Goose, we lost Ice, we just lost Viper too 🇺🇸🦅
We will miss you Tom Skerritt, you were a great actor, we will remember you from Top Gun, MASH all the way to Alien 🫡
One of us 💔
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“Good Morning Gentlemen…”
Sad to hear of the passing of Tom Skerritt famous for being ‘Viper’ and so many other great roles. Some may not know that he was actually an Air Force veteran himself and whilst he was never a flyer, his brother flew P-51’s in WW2. Sad he never made it to any of the sequels. Maybe a mention or nod to him would be appropriate if they ever do another.
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An unfathomable act of economic self-harm by Plaid Cymru, supported it seems, by the Tories.
This will mean fewer renewable projects, fewer jobs created in rural Wales, greater environmental harm, and more expensive electricity bills for us all.
Utter madness.
Wales plans to ban steel pylons as government launches consultation bbc.in/4z7nnMx
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This is highly unusual: Rampion wind farm output close to max in winds that are almost at cut out speed. So Shoreham is running at 70% and acting as spinning reserve in case that happens.
This is mad. 11-66 and even some 132 goes on wood. Of those voltages, only 132 would use lattice. So they want to use 132 cable, damaging the landscape, and at 15-20x the cost per km depending on installation method and route. 🤯🤯
(Towers) 😘
What do the Welsh want them made from then? Bamboo? 🫣
Wales plans to ban steel pylons as government launches consultation bbc.in/4z7nnMx
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We are monitoring Storm Austen and the disruption it is having on the electricity network.
My thanks to all the engineers out in difficult conditions. They have already reconnected over 23,000 customers and are working to get the remainder back on power as soon as possible.
#OTD 2019 and a rare photo of the five OG members of “stop for safety”. Justin, me, Ross, Matt and Liam, aka “the boy”.
We were then, and we remain now, utility engineers, powering nations across Europe nowadays 💪🏻☺️
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Opening Jackdaw = less imported LNG.
UK North Sea Gas: Emits ~21..28 kg of CO₂ per barrel of oil equivalent (boe).
Imported LNG: Emits ~79..85 kg of CO₂ per boe.
Opening up Jackdaw produces less CO₂, and generates £b's in revenue isn't that a good thing?
I am furious that the government approved Jackdaw - a gas field that will do nothing for jobs, bills, or energy security.
This climate vandalism has to stop.
The answer is No To Rosebank.
huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/g…
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No one has a right to an electricity supply, we feel like we should as we become more dependent on it but that right isn’t there and never will be
In the history of energy supply, such a guarantee has never been given. It’s always been best endeavours. We tend to get it right more often than we get it wrong 🤞🏻
🚨Sneaked out by OFGEM this morning, a warning for the first time EVER they cannot guarantee that demand will be met on a peak day in winter.
Let’s be clear what that means. They cannot guarantee that homes will be warm, lights come on or industry function on a peak day this winter.
And why? Because of an accelerated decline in domestic gas supply from the North Sea.
So what is the solution? For British bill payers to pay more, to IMPORT more from Europe (specifically Belgium) to keep the lights on in Britain.
Britain. A country with vast supplies of gas, untapped, deliberately due to Labour policy now going cap in hand to Europe and paying vast sums to import foreign gas.
It is utterly outrageous. You couldn’t make it up.
ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/f…
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To the Immortal Memory of Lord Nelson and those who fell with him
#TrafalgarDay
#OTD in 1805
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#OTD in 1805, the Royal Navy defeated the combined forces of France and Spain at Trafalgar.
The tactical brilliance, professionalism, technology and training which underpinned Adm Lord Nelson’s stunning victory have driven and shaped the Navy ever since.
#TrafalgarDay
