Kate Morleykatemorley@hachyderm.io
Aug 12, 2026, 8:41 AMToday’s solar generation forecast for Great Britain, showing the expected impact of this evening’s eclipse (note: time axis is UTC):
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Happy Stevehappysteve@mas.toAug 12, 2026, 9:05 AM@katemorley I'm mentally fitting a Gaussian (is that the right curve?) to this graph... nice!
Till-o-matswoonie@mastodon.ieAug 12, 2026, 9:07 AM@katemorley
That's... not a big impact? Am I getting this right?
Missingtalemisingtale@mastodon.socialAug 12, 2026, 9:29 AM@katemorley I guess it would have a much bigger impact if it was closer to mid day. But again only for a short time.
Aug 12, 2026, 10:00 AM@katemorley So absolutely no justification for the press saying 'switch off your appliances' as if the grid was going to go dark..
Steven Reedsrtcd424@mas.toAug 12, 2026, 10:18 AM@tony
I thought that was something Octopus suggested to avoid having to spin up as much extra CCGT?
@katemorley- Aug 12, 2026, 10:20 AM
@srtcd424 @katemorley If it was that sane (although I'd question it, cloud cover could cost you the same amount of solar easily).
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/solar-eclipse-electricity-octopus-energy-b3031615.html
- Till-o-matswoonie@mastodon.ieAug 12, 2026, 10:23 AM
@katemorley
Check this out. 👇
That price hike around the time of the eclipse must be purele speculative then?