According to The Engineer Online, the coal-fired power stations at Kingsnorth wasted 6.55 terrawatt-hours of heat, and heatdemand in the local area is 5.91 terrawatt-hours.
But he says preliminary research suggests that a large solar plant could inject extra heat during the day and trim overnight heatdemand, thus displacing another third of a field's gas consumption.
The persistent heat nurtured buoyant demand for residual fuel oil and direct crude burning for power generation, as electricity consumption soared to meet air conditioning demand in the region.