National Grid scheme to ration households’ power use at peak times

NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

h/t Ian Magness

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Households will be paid to ration their power usage at peak times as the National Grid scrambles to reduce pressure on Britain’s energy infrastructure.

From Friday up to 1.4m households will be paid if they cut their normal electricity consumption at certain two-hour periods during the day, as an experiment to see how households’ behavior might be changed.

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