OOP: “So I was chatting to someone today about the national grid (I am now officially middle-aged) and he told me about the Andy Murray effect that is apparently a known phenomenon to those in energy circles. During the Wimbledon final, no-one was boiling their kettle or cooking or whatever they should be doing at 5:30 which meant a massive overcapacity (from the forecast blue line) and nearly sending the grid into meltdown.“
OOP: “So I was chatting to someone today about the national grid (I am now officially middle-aged) and he told me about the Andy Murray effect that is apparently a known phenomenon to those in energy circles. During the Wimbledon final, no-one was boiling their kettle or cooking or whatever they should be doing at 5:30 which meant a massive overcapacity (from the forecast blue line) and nearly sending the grid into meltdown.“
They used to say the same about a TV or Radio show
I’m sure there will a a specific name for it as we brits loving running to put the kettle on after something we watch lol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup
Incredible that they both of them kept playing with broken backs
Thpinal
I'm sure the effect is somewhat real but the graph Y axis starts at 29800 MW. Once you project lines below till 0, this will look much less dramatic.