National "No Power" day

moonpenny

I think it would be a great idea for everyone in the country to not use any Gas or Electricity for a whole day. (Apart from Hospitals, Business etc.)

It would really hit the Utility companies in the pocket!

ian1969uk

Not very practical though is it?

backfoot

Name the day.

alistair.long

Get loads of people to do it and I will help out.
It will have to be witin the hours of the sun, otherwise people will be lighting candles and fires.

I see the national grid slowing down, and then when everyone turns the tv's and fridges on it will blow the base station or wires.

Would love to show the energy companies who we are.

I think I will start to setup my solar panels so at least I have electric, lol

prosaver

moonpenny wrote: »

I think it would be a great idea for everyone in the country to not use any Gas or Electricity for a whole day. (Apart from Hospitals, Business etc.)

It would really hit the Utility companies in the pocket!

the best thing is to do the opposite and have a power surge and blow the grid
heres how it works quote....
Having too many plug-in hybrid cars actually plugged in could blow up the grid — or at least knock out a few localized transformers.
That’s the message from one utility executive, anyway, speaking at the 2009 Plug In conference in California. But even if it’s true, Boulder’s transformation to the nation’s first smart-grid city will likely keep the local grid intact.
Here’s the story as reported in Scientific American:

“We have a lot of challenges before us to help make this market a reality,” said Ed Kjaer, director of Southern California Edison’s electric transportation advancement program.Chief among those challenges is how thousands of power-hungry vehicles would tax distribution transformers at the local level. Such transformers have historically handled electricity load for about 10 average-size homes each.
Adding a plug-in car to the grid is equal to about a third of a house, Kjaer said. And because early adopters are likely to spring up in geographic concentrations, that could mean overloaded transformers at the distribution level or plug-in cars potentially causing power outages.

in our case we all should put all are heating and high energy equipment on a certain time and blow the grid.

moonpenny

alistair.long wrote: »

Get loads of people to do it and I will help out.
It will have to be witin the hours of the sun, otherwise people will be lighting candles and fires.

I see the national grid slowing down, and then when everyone turns the tv's and fridges on it will blow the base station or wires.

Would love to show the energy companies who we are.

I think I will start to setup my solar panels so at least I have electric, lol

That's cheating! :rotfl:

prosaver

alistair.long wrote: »

Get loads of people to do it and I will help out.
It will have to be witin the hours of the sun, otherwise people will be lighting candles and fires.

I see the national grid slowing down, and then when everyone turns the tv's and fridges on it will blow the base station or wires.

Would love to show the energy companies who we are.

I think I will start to setup my solar panels so at least I have electric, lol

that what i meant :T

rb10

We already have it for an hour - http://www.earthhour.org

charlotte289

Well, if this idea does ever come about, please let it be in July or August... I'd hate to have a "no power" day in December, for instance! Imagine that... you'd have to wear a thick winter coat in the house and have candles lit for about 12 hours :eek:

macman

alistair.long wrote: »

Get loads of people to do it and I will help out.
It will have to be witin the hours of the sun, otherwise people will be lighting candles and fires.

I see the national grid slowing down, and then when everyone turns the tv's and fridges on it will blow the base station or wires.

Would love to show the energy companies who we are.

I think I will start to setup my solar panels so at least I have electric, lol

If grid connected, your solar PV system will shut down when the grid goes down.
And all the utilities will still collect their standing charges as usual...

Plushchris

It'll never work, you wouldnt get enough people on board for it to make enough of a difference...


Everyone will say they will do it then realise when it comes to having their morning cup of tea/coffee that they need to put the kettle on (or whatever) and just give up.