Section 04 of 05
Gas & Coal
What runs at four in the morning, and what is closing. The dispatchable half of the system: what follows demand, what is closing, and what covers the hours when nothing renewable is available.
4 pieces in this section
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Four in the Morning
The hour that tests a grid: no sun, low wind, low demand but not zero. What is actually running, and why that answer is the honest measure of a transition.
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Phasing Out the Coal Stations
The closure programme described factually — which stations, what replaced them, and what a converted or demolished site becomes.
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Gas Is the Swing
Combined-cycle plant as the thing that follows demand. Ramp rates, part-load efficiency and why flexibility has a cost of its own.
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Capacity Is Not Energy
The most common confusion in every energy argument: what a gigawatt of installed capacity does and does not tell you about kilowatt-hours delivered.
