The Dormouse That Roared

This is a holding text at the moment. Hopefully more facts will arrive soon. As far as we can tell, there are no feedback signals from the National Grid about reducing demand or delaying demand in order to reduce demand in the long term or avoid having to increase carbon intensity by firing up a gas plant or coal plant or oil plant to satisfy demand. Some website provide a red amber green signal for when carbon intensity is high so that consumers might make decisions about switching appliances on later, but frankly this is not going to be enough. What is really needed is a strong feedback system direct from the National Grid that gives feedback on carbon intensity forecasting e.g. at 5pm the news that, between 8-10pm this evening we will be switching on fossil fuel electricity generation unless your demand reduces by 10% or whatever. Here are two examples of third party feedback. Although the ecotricity one looks fancier, we think the second one is a better signal, RED, g...

From https://www.worldcoal.com/power/23112015/uk-move-away-from-coal-is-wishful-thinking-3193/

Whilst searching for details of UK imports of coal, this came to light, on the website of the, up to now, completely unknown, The Association of Coal Importers and Producers . The members of this organisation are: Associated British Ports Banks Group Celtic Energy Drax Power Limited GB Railfreight Hargreaves Services Jera Trading Merthyr (South Wales) Oxbow Coal Ltd Uniper Global Commodities SE Here are desmog in 2016, throwing some light on lobbying by coalimp and the Carbon Price Floor: https://www.desmog.co.uk/2016/08/22/emails-reveal-uk-coal-industry-s-urgent-lobbying-coal-use-falls-and-solar-power-soars

What are the CO2 and other toxic emissions produced, by year, by plant, by type, for coal burned in the UK (ditto for all countries, world, but later)? What are the plans for decommissioning coal plants in the UK? How are coal burning plants used by the national grid in the hierarchy? What is the carbon footprint of extracting coal in other countries, transporting by ship to UK ports, distributing around the UK, etc? What's the story about biomass? What are the health effects of living downwind of coal plants in the UK? How much coal is held "in stock"? What differences are there in the emission efficiencies of UK coal plants? What are the health effects for those handing coal from source to usage? Which countries are we importing coal from? Which countries are we exporting coal to and for what purpose? What is the coal used for in the UK that isn't used for making electricity?

Coal tracker and from the same site, real time energy mix for UK and the National Grid We'll organise the list of available UK grid monitors but for now here's: http://gridwatch.templar.co.uk/ For the week ending 24/12/2018, 352 GWh of electricity generated from coal. So that is 352,000,000 kWh and the emissions come to 352,000,000 kg of CO2 which is 352,000 tonnes CO2 or 352 ktCO2 for that week. Have we got the maths right here, putting aside the rounded up 1 kWh of coal generation is responsible for 1 kg CO2 emissions? Also see here http://carbonintensity.org.uk/