If you look at the National Grid status page now around lunchtime 1st March. We are in the orange area as far as electricity production is concerned we are generating 48GW of Electricity at the moment the majority of February has been nearer say a peak of 44 to 45 GW.
http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/ Many homes and Industry are using more gas than usual, therefore the backbone of the electricity generation system, combined cycle gas turbines that is gas turbines with heat recovery has been paired back. Wind and Nuclear are holding up well and even solar is around 0.75 GW.
For the first time in a good while we are seeing non heat recovery gas turbines started which goes against the paired back combined cycle gas turbines which are more efficient.
The nominal 50HZ electricity frequency is a touch lower than usual.
Have a look at the site linked to above.
