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"The UK is planning for several days over the winter when cold weather may combine with gas shortages, leading to organized blackouts for industry and even households.
Under the government’s latest “reasonable worst-case scenario,” Britain could face an electricity capacity shortfall totaling about a sixth of peak demand, even after emergency coal plants have been fired up, according to people familiar with the government’s planning.
Under that outlook, below-average temperatures and reduced electricity imports from Norway and France could expose four days in January when the UK may need to trigger emergency measures to conserve gas, they said. The government Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment."
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Thanks for that
...leading to organized blackouts for industry and even households.
I'm interested in how this works. I see Germany have limited energy usage in public buildings, so they can't out heating/ lights on at certain times.
UK domestic blackout I don't understand. I'm an ex domestic Gas Engineer. If you shut off the gas to a household it would them require a gas engineer to visit to purge the supply before it could be safely used again so this isn't feasible at scale. So I'm wondering if this is bad reporting/ mis informed government briefing or else.
sacredhart
^thats behind a paywall for me I think/ or something on my phone is blocking.
Are they suggesting gas supplies.would be shut off?