Posted on 11/28/2022 7:11:12 AM PST by JonPreston
Households across Britain could be paid on Tuesday evening to help take strain off the country’s energy grid as French nuclear plants will be unable to help deal with demand.
National Grid’s system operator said it was considering the first ever live run of its Demand Flexibility Service – which is designed to avoid blackouts.
"Even though wind is coming back for tomorrow evening’s peak, slow return of nukes in France plus lower temperatures may mean that there is a reduction in available imports across the interconnectors"
(Excerpt) Read more at standard.co.uk ...
The sun hasn’t shown very brightly on the British Empire for quite some time, either.
Interesting, when France’s nuclear plants are downed then it’s a double whammy with England being without power.
Those who have consistently kept their usage down won’t be paid but those who normally leave on every light in the house but turns them off for that one night will get paid. Yeah, that definitely makes sense.
France is a net importer of electricity, mostly from Germany.
So the exports to Britain are balanced by imports from somewhere else.
Sounds like a shell game, or musical chairs and it’s all unnecessary.
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