Potential power outages this winter

darael said:
Does this also mean our gas supplies will be cut off? If so, there goes my gas cooker as backup for boiling water. :(
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On a serious note mains gas is usually only cut off as a very last resort as the risks of faulty appliances leaking unignited (is that a real word? <shrug>) gas when it comes back on stream is too high. If the gas in a street is to be cut off men usually go door to door and leave flyers or physically warn people to turn off all appliances well before the gas is shut off, if possible.
 
Used to have one of these for fishing. They’re superb.

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Time to buy an Ecoflow ladies. All us nutters have a few KW of backup power, Solar, Wood stoves and gas tanks like good doom mongers :p
 
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These work fine. Take them camping and great in an emergency if someone only has electric cooking.

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Chris Wilson said:
Close your eyes and think affectionately of Ukraine.
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repenting on any brexit sins is equally pertinent ... (Trust in) Truss is trying to ensure Norway gas interconnectors and EU electricity are there to help in the times of need
(with the EU she now has two groups of friends .. like a child on facebook)

and, wondering why the UK government didn't make any energy reducing proposals eg this evenings stand-up. https://www.channel4.com/news/uk-energy-security-remains-very-strong-says-former-energy-minister
 
This is a worst case scenario requiring all of these elements occurring at same time, to trigger the power cuts.

- Reduced electricity imports from Europe combined with insufficient gas supply in Great Britain
- A colder than expected / average Winter, which increases demand on energy for heating
 
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Graetzbridge said:
Power outages are very infrequent in UK. I the liner's strike was about 1984.
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Not round here they're not. I dunno who put the electricity distribution infrastructure in, but they need a good kicking. Mainly brief ones, especially in strong winds, but sometimes of several hours duration. It seems to have got better in the last two years but the cooker clock still needs resetting a lot because there have been very brief cuts. There are a lot of BIG commercial chicken rearing operations around here and when the cooling blowers fire up, especially if by chance a few fire up simultaneously, they put a brief but immense load on the supply, which can trigger a breaker on that section of the grid.
 
Chris Wilson said:
Not round here they're not. I dunno who put the electricity distribution infrastructure in, but they need a good kicking. Mainly brief ones, especially in strong winds, but sometimes of several hours duration. It seems to have got better in the last two years but the cooker clock still needs resetting a lot because there have been very brief cuts. There are a lot of BIG commercial chicken rearing operations around here and when the cooling blowers fire up, especially if by chance a few fire up simultaneously, they put a brief but immense load on the supply, which can trigger a breaker on that section of the grid.
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We've had a couple of brief ones over the past few weeks just long enough to knock everything off (a matter of a couple of seconds).

And a couple in the storms one for a couple of days the other about a day.
 
Living in a somewhat rural location with the power coming in on overhead poles the electricity isn't totally reliable - though for some reason it has been a lot more stable the last ~18 months. The first year I lived here was frequent flickers or brownouts, a couple of half-day long power cuts and a couple of 30-60 minute ones. When people started installing electric car chargers could tell there was a strain on the system - maybe resulted in them beefing things up a bit.
 
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