schell70
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Whilst I don't disagree with that it just shows how little room there is to spare at the moment. We used to have 'standby' power stations for diaster recovery, they have all been decommissioned. Our backup is now OCGT (Open Cycle Gas Turbines - effectively jet engines) which are hugely expensive to run. Our main power source is CCGT (Closed Cycle Gas Turbines) which run on gas of which only 40% comes from the UK (North Sea).There’ll be smart chargers that work with sliding tariffs just like Economy 7. There’s no need to charge a car at times when there’s already high demand. I’m guessing you pulled that graph just. 1600-1900 is peak demand.
Not wanting to be a doom monger but its something to think about