{"id":262934,"date":"2023-06-20T10:28:58","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T08:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=262934"},"modified":"2023-06-20T10:29:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T08:29:01","slug":"grid-asks-factories-to-use-less-energy-next-winter-under-blackout-prevention-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=262934","title":{"rendered":"Grid asks factories to use less energy next winter under blackout prevention\u00a0plan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

h\/t Philip Bratby<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The National Grid will ask factories and businesses to voluntarily cut their electricity usage this winter under an expansion of a service previously pioneered by households.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In <\/em>a bid to help keep Britain\u2019s lights on<\/em><\/a>, the Grid has confirmed it will urge heavy industry to sign up to the so-called demand flexibility service this coming winter.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Businesses that sign up would be asked to reduce their consumption at times when supplies are expected to be stretched, helping to ease pressure on the system.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While they may use the same amount of energy overall, shifting their usage outside of peak times can help the Grid to manage and prevent blackouts in worst-case scenarios.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Households are also being asked <\/em>to take part in the demand flexibility service again<\/em><\/a>, which was first introduced last year.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/business\/2023\/06\/17\/national-grid-blackout-prevention-plan-business-energy-use\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are rapidly returning to the blackouts and voltage reductions of the 1960s and 70s. (Remember how our old TVs used to lose their horizontal hold, whenever voltage was reduced?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back then our steel works, along with many other heavy power users, were handed Maximum Demand periods, usually of an hour, and with maybe a day\u2019s notice at times of peak demand. Any electricity used during that hour was charged at a punitive rate. Consequently everything shut down, the furnaces, rolling mills etc; even the lights went off in the offices, which was quite a fun time when you did not have to work and could chat the girls up instead!. But it was no way to run a factory efficiently, and neither will this latest idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This move is, to all intents and purposes, rationing. And the reason is quite clear \u2013 the closure of nearly all of our coal power capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we are having to take such drastic action now, heaven help us when our gas plants start to shut down as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Telegraph finishes with this ridiculous claim:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Given that only 1.6 million homes took up the offer, clearly the amount saved could not have been enough to power 9.9 million homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Given that only 1.6 million homes took up the offer, clearly the amount saved could not have been enough to power 9.9 million homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":262939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818279,691818247],"class_list":{"0":"post-262934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-blackouts","9":"tag-national-grid","11":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/04_Family-sitting-by-the-candles-during-the-blackout.webp?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-16oS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":231545,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=231545","url_meta":{"origin":262934,"position":0},"title":"UK National Grid avoids emergency blackout measures in supply scramble","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"29\/11\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Winter isn\u2019t even here yet. 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