Cold weather triggers money-off energy scheme

A scheme that offers discounts on bills for households who cut peak-time electricity use will be triggered on Monday as the UK's cold snap continues.

National Grid said the scheme, which is part of its efforts to avoid blackouts and has only been used in tests so far, would run between 17:00 and 18:00 GMT.National Grid said the measures were "precautionary" and it did not mean electricity supplies were at risk. It said it expected electricity supply margins "to be tighter than normal" on Monday, but added that "people should not be worried".The cold weather means demand for energy rises as more people heat their homes., which allows some households to receive discounts if they cut their use of electricity, by, for example, delaying the use of a tumble-dryer or washing machine.

If everyone signed up then what would be the point of it. Peak usage would just be moved to a new time.

It’s definitely not cold ! It’s all fine in the north ! Just the usual issues with the south using too much power & too many EVS plugging in dirty times - gas / coal makes clean electric 🤔🤔🤔🤔

And someone wants to increase ownership of EVs and electric powered heat pumps...

“windmills not working”.. Fixed it for you.. bbcnews

With the greens insisting ban petrol cars where is this electricity expected to be generated from for their EV revolution.

Has anyone heard of Economy 7 ? Oh wait, they charge more for that tariff, go figure 🙄 But it was designed to move load to off peak times, shame the expensive tariff puts a nail in that

So more or less they are trying this and expect blackouts in the future. Another measure to control the public. So within the year there will be daily blackouts etc

bbc make it sound like it hasn't happened before, best they speak to Octopus.

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