Posted on 01/23/2023 7:41:53 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
More than a million UK households will be offered money for them to cut their electricity use between 5pm and 6pm on Monday in a move that follows the National Grid bringing back mothballed coal plants today to ensure supply.
Some people across Britain are to be offered up to £20 (~$24.76) to dramatically reduce their electricity usage between 5pm and 6pm on Monday evening in an attempt to curb the country’s electricity use in the face of potential shortages.
It will be the first time such payments will be issued under the National Grid’s Demand Flexibility Service, which was introduced late last year in the hopes of preventing power blackouts.
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They had this in Virginia...I think they turned off the hot water tank. It was not a problem. We had a heat pump. Think we got $3 or $4 off our bill...which was cheap to start with as we were New Yorkers...
More electric cars are needed…
If only there were some way to avoid this... if only... oh I know- require everyone to switch over to electric everything.
The left truly are Insane
Ah Great Britain, a nation who’s GDP per person is lower than the state of Alabama’s....
Just something to chew on.
You can’t power modern civilization on wind and solar.
Yes, paying people to not demand energy is better than providing an adequate supply, eh Governor?
Britain has committed cultural suicide and is in decadent decline. Absolutely no sympathy for a country that sits on all that coal and has significant North Sea oil reserves.
It was very poorly worded communication, probably purposely so. My response: under no circumstances give permission for a smart meter to be installed (had to read between the lines to see what they were after).
All I want is a room somewhere
Far away from the cold night air
With one enormous chair
Oh, wouldn’t it be loverly?
Lots of chocolate for me to eat
Lots of coal makin’ lots of heat
Warm face, warm hands, warm feet
Oh, wouldn’t it be loverly?
Oh, so lovely sittin’
Abso-bloomin’-lutely still
I would never budge till spring
Crept over me window sill
That was my #1 beef against installing solar. In that case it wouldn't be a "smart meter" but an extra meter to detect how much power I'd put onto the grid. And with that would come an extra regulation saying I'd have to tell my inverter to shut down if the grid power went down (to keep my solar from harming linemen working on downed power lines). Last but not least there'd be a large monthly fee for the privilege of participating in the solar buy-back program that's pay little back to me.
No thank you. That is...until I realized I could get an inverter with the "no output" option (some solar geeks call it the "zero report" option). For that reason, I now have solar and it provides most of the power we need. But as far as the power company goes I'm not a solar user. I'm just an average Joe customer like everybody else except to them I consume a lot less power even though the reality is I have an all-electric home and charge an EV.
Originally Meatless Friday.
Now Powerless Monday.
"If we pay people enough, they wouldn't use any power Sunday through Saturday and our problem is solved. Plus, with our generous government payments, people would have all the money they need to live, so they could quit their jobs and live life to the fullest. Without the drudgery of a job and with our glorious National Healthcare, they wouldn't have any worries and could all become poets."
Dudley Dursley will NOT be happy when he finds out tea will be served late.
2021 I kept my heat on 68 degrees....2022-2023 I lowered to 66 degrees in my house. I’m paying $78 more per month and living in a colder home. I despise our treasonous scumbags in DC.
BTW, I use PECO and they list average temperature and usage——in 2021-Jan 2022 I used 4.69 therms per day and in Dec 2022-Jan 2023 I used 4.63 Therms per day. I paid $78 more using less natural gas per day.
People should form rotating pot-luck dinner pods...four families bring a food dish to the fifth’s home for dinner...it’s just an hour, and four families get the $25 and a little social time. Not that it’s not ridiculous for the government to ask this, but as restrictions go, this is one you could take advantage of.
Here in northern CT the Public Utility Commission allowed new rates effective January 1 and the first bill reflecting those rates just showed up...
The cost per kilowatt hour just doubled!
This is going to crush small businesses and the middle class, and might be enough to drive large businesses out of the state as well.
I can not use a great deal of electric power. Will be be paid according to how much power we don’t use?
...Save $25 by killing your power for an hour? That’s pretty useless... Might be worth it if it’s available every hour, but for a single hour, on one day? It’s too much effort to actually bother with.
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