Net Transfer capacities for France - ie is France well interconnected with Europe

[dave andrews]

David W…looks like France is in fact well interconnected with its neighbours. - looks like 10 GW.

 

It also has a lot of hydro within borders as I understand it.

 

Kind regards

 

David Andrews  

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From: Sofia

Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 2:03 PM
To: ANDREWS David

Subject: Net Transfer capacities for France

 

Dave,

I am not completely sure if this is what you wanted.

The net transfer capacities (NTC) estimated by ENTSO E for France for Winter and summer 2010-2011 are attached and can be obtained from ENTSO E

https://www.entsoe.eu/resources/ntc-values/ntc-matrix/

In the last winter FR has transferred 2000 MW with the UK, 500 MW with ES, 2300 with BE, 3200 with DE, 1100 MW CH and 995 MW with IT. These are values for working days, peak hours

According to ENTSO-E these are the figures market agents will use to estimate necessary investments.

 

Note:

The Total transmission capacity is given by the NTC + transmission reliability margin (TRM) agreed by both exchanging countries. TRM is estimated by ENTSO E based on criteria from UCTE and national TSO.

Probably you know all this anyway

 

 

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[dave andrews]

Bob...interesting.,...so assuming it was all big alpine reservoirs, which it won;t be of course, that means something like say 12% of the installed nuclear capacity is duplicated by storage hydro capacity.  Anyone no the proportion of pumped hydro to run of river?

 

And as i keep saying, the French have 5 GW of diesel which they run for up to 12 hours per day on occasion when the declare an EJP day.

 

Kind regards

 

Dave

On 19 December 2011 15:34, Lowe, Robert <rober...@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

Dave

on your last point, annual French electricity generation was more than 25% hydro in 1980 – see http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Electricity_production_in_France.svg .  I suspect the proportion was higher in earlier years.  The French system looks rather more like Sweden than the UK.

The parent page has a table of imports and exports to neighbouring countries in 2010 - http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Électricité_en_France .

Bob Lowe

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[dave andrews]

 

http://setis.ec.europa.eu/technologies/Hydropower/print_version

.........."European countries with the largest capacity of hydropower are France, Italy, Norway and Spain"..........

 

INSTALLED CAPACITY

Current installed capacity in the EU-27 is about 102 GW (excluding hydro-pumped storage and close to 90% of this potential is covered by large hydropower plants. More than 21 000 small hydropower plants (100kW – 30MW) account for over 12 GW of installed capacity in Europe. About 38 GW of pumped hydro-storage capacity is installed across the EU-27. The transformation of existing facilities into storage schemes is an important potential base for pumped hydro-storage development and there is also room for more innovative schemes e.g. using old mine pits or using the sea as one of the reservoirs.

The total installed capacity of SHP plants in new Member States (820 MW) and candidate countries (600 MW) is well below the capacity in the former EU-15 (10 000 MW). Electricity generation by SHP plants in the former old Member States (EU-15) is considerably higher (40 000 GWh/y) by comparison to the new Member States (EU-12) (4 000 GWh/y).

 

On 19 December 2011 15:34, Lowe, Robert <rober...@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

Dave

on your last point, annual French electricity generation was more than 25% hydro in 1980 – see http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Electricity_production_in_France.svg .  I suspect the proportion was higher in earlier years.  The French system looks rather more like Sweden than the UK.

The parent page has a table of imports and exports to neighbouring countries in 2010 - http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Électricité_en_France .

Bob Lowe

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