Is your heating ON or OFF?

luvchocolate

Power cut yesterday for 4 hours and it's off again since 9am 

I'm ok but in over 60s property and many are immobile 

Reddleman79

This week I've used about 80 kWh of gas and 35 kWh electric. Gas CH and oil filled heater on in evenings.

Primrose

luvchocolate said:

Power cut yesterday for 4 hours and it's off again since 9am 

I'm ok but in over 60s property and many are immobile 

I'm wondering if this was one of the ewrly stages of the National Grid power blackouts about which we were warned if too much pressure was put on the system during a very cold spell?  Did you receive any advance text warning from your power company?

Indout96

We were on a 2 hour "paid not to use" yesterday 5.00 pm / 7.00 pm so sat in the dark but could use gas fire (even fridge freezer was turned off). this was our 5th one but the others have only been 1 hour. so a bit worrying that we had 1,000s of people cutting back on these schemes but still there were some power cuts.

YoungBlueEyes

I thought that too (planned power outage). @DigForVictory put up a link the other day to show times when your area might be affected, and the outages were in 3 hour blocks. 

Would they be allowed to stretch it an extra hour? Or is it somewhere with an actual power cut at the mo, eg Shetland?

Rosa_Damascena

luvchocolate said:

Power cut yesterday for 4 hours and it's off again since 9am 

I'm ok but in over 60s property and many are immobile 

  . This is seriously worrying! Our infrastructure must have a written contingency for unthinkable circumstances.

@Reddleman79 - 80kWh sound like a lot but a back of an envelope calculation tells me that's 2.5 units on the meter? Which is about £27 on the coldest week of the year. 

Primrose

Indout96 said:

We were on a 2 hour "paid not to use" yesterday 5.00 pm / 7.00 pm so sat in the dark but could use gas fire (even fridge freezer was turned off). this was our 5th one but the others have only been 1 hour. so a bit worrying that we had 1,000s of people cutting back on these schemes but still there were some power cuts.

A friend's family have been participating in an Ovo scheme like this. They,ve been eating by candlelight and switching everything off .  I think for all their efforts so far they,ve been credited with a £4 refund.   I think the increasingly bitter weather has meant that many elderly or disabled people have felt unable to do without their heating as darkness falls and the thermometer is dropping. 

Freezers are often fairly full in the run up to Christmas so should be able to endure a two hour power outage without too much problem just as long as you remember to switch it on promptly after the experiment, otherwise yiue food losses could cost a lot more then the refund you gain!

luvchocolate

Primrose said:

luvchocolate said:

Power cut yesterday for 4 hours and it's off again since 9am 

I'm ok but in over 60s property and many are immobile 

I'm wondering if this was one of the ewrly stages of the National Grid power blackouts about which we were warned if too much pressure was put on the system during a very cold spell?  Did you receive any advance text warning from your power company?

No warning been off since 9am and still of nearby traffic lights on a town centre ring road off so I think it's a genuine fault. 
Really cold now 

London_1

Definitely on full blast as its blooming freezing in north Kent,I have a throw over my knees plus a hot water bottle on my toes  no chance of me getting cold today  
JackieO xx

Auntycaz

Hope it's fixed soon @luvchocolate
I think we.ve got a gremlin in the works I keep getting logged out.