A festive power snap shot

Following the recent post at reference 1, I am starting this Christmas morning to wonder about the peaks in power consumption when all those turkeys are banged up in their ovens and when all those children rush out at the advertisement breaks afterwards.

A quick peek at pumped storage this morning reveals a lot more activity in the last week or so than I would have guessed. But to keep a sense of proportion, the load mostly runs between 30,000 and 40,000, day and night, so even at peak, pumped storage is only doing a percent or so. I must take another peek this afternoon, just après bond.

Reference 1: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/all-power-to-pc.html.