compensation for power cut 2 days?

molerat

At a guess I would say the op is in the Perth area so SSE is the responsible party, nothing to do with NG.

mitch161

posed on wrong thread so edited out
cheers for ignoring LOL

JC_Derby

eurmalian wrote: »

Grid owns the high voltage network in England, but regional DNOs run the low voltage ones. If you end up with a fault then it's far more likely to be the low voltage cabeling than the high voltage...

Google 'Electricity Distribution Companies' and your first result will be the National Grid page about them

Not really
National grid manage the Extreme High Voltage network nationally ie above 132000v local DNos can manage systems upto 400000v. thats hardly low voltage.

JC_Derby

molerat wrote: »

Best tell them that then.

as stated above National Grid own the extreme high voltage system, regional DNO/Recs own and manage the local distribution systems.

molerat

JC_Derby wrote: »

as stated above National Grid own the extreme high voltage system, regional DNO/Recs own and manage the local distribution systems.

Not in Scotland. P11 here has a simple diagram http://www.bath.ac.uk/management/cri/pubpdf/Industry_Briefs/Electricity_Gillian_Simmonds.pdf

There are two transmission systems in Scotland. Scottish and Southern Energy, licensed as Scottish Hydro-Electric Transmission Ltd, owns and operates the transmission system in the north, comprising 4,808 circuit kilometres of 275kV and 132kV overhead lines and cables. Scottish Power, licensed as SP Transmission Ltd, owns and operates the system in the south of Scotland, comprising 4,098 circuit kilometres of 400kV, 275kV and 132 kV of overhead lines and cables.
The Scottish network is connected, via a 1,600 MW interconnector, to NGC’s transmission system in England and Wales.

sm20000

My friend has a take away and his gas was disconnected by mistake by the supplier although he had paid the bill. Now they agree that they had made a mistake. How muc e can claim?

HappyMJ

sm20000 wrote: »

My friend has a take away and his gas was disconnected by mistake by the supplier although he had paid the bill. Now they agree that they had made a mistake. How muc e can claim?

Claim his losses. Might end up in court so keep evidence of all losses.

Ich_2

Ok, National Grid owns & maintains the 275 & 400 kV network in the country.
The DNOs (the old electricity boards) look after all the voltage levels of 132kV and below. it has been like this for at least the last 39 years that I have worked in the industry, and privatisation did not change it
The exception has always been in Scotland where the two Scottish companies do manage the higher voltages.

http://www.energynetworks.org/info/faqs/electricity-distribution-map.html

http://www.energynetworks.org/info/faqs/electricity-transmission-map.html

Buzby

As a commercial user, if the outage is caused by the supplier's incompetence, then any losses (which will need to be substantiated) will not unreasonably be met by the supplier, he needs to call customer services and explain his business suffered an enforced closure due to their sub-contractor terminating the incorrect supply.

Do remember, if the disruption was caused by emergency works, this will not apply and he needs to claim on his business insurance for disruption to trading.

Cate1976

On the subject of what to keep and what to throw out after a power cut, my parents were without power for 5/6 days back in 2002. If it had been off for a few maybe 6/7 hours more, they would have got money from the electric co. Whoever they were with would only pay up after 6/7 days. When the power had been off for a few hours, Dad put a duvet round the freezer. Obviously there was some stuff such as ice cream which had to be binned, fruit was refroze, meat - most of that was cooked and then refroze. There were a few things which were binned. It's worth saying that although the official advice would be to bin everything, some types of meat can be cooked and then refroze provided it hasn't gone off, the same with a lot of fruit things. It also depends on how good your freezer is, my parents have an upright freezer with draws.