Planned Power Cut WFH due to Covid: Compensation?

Thrugelmir

hello1254a said:

I have to WFH due to Covid, so I will not be able to WFH on those days. 

No ability to work in the office? 

Dr_Crypto

Why can’t you go into work like you did before Covid? 

Robin9

Carrot007 said:

Robin9 said:

Carrot007 said:

Convert the property to a commercial one and get a commercial contract with guarantees?

You will be lose out on money, but hey at least you can work!

That will make no difference - a commercial energy contract does not guarantee a continuous supply of electricity.

Agree with the others  go to your mates for the days concerned.

............... But with a commercial contract it is up for negotiation. Of course no chance for OP but the big supermarkets certainly do have thing like it in place.

Times must have changed then  - in my career with what was the Area Supply Boards (SWEB etc) we didn't guarantee a supply to anyone. They might have more than one supply but they would pay for it. 

Jono111

What does your contract say about what happens if they can't supply.

Carrot007

Robin9 said:

Carrot007 said:

Robin9 said:

Carrot007 said:

Convert the property to a commercial one and get a commercial contract with guarantees?

You will be lose out on money, but hey at least you can work!

That will make no difference - a commercial energy contract does not guarantee a continuous supply of electricity.

Agree with the others  go to your mates for the days concerned.

............... But with a commercial contract it is up for negotiation. Of course no chance for OP but the big supermarkets certainly do have thing like it in place.

Times must have changed then  - in my career with what was the Area Supply Boards (SWEB etc) we didn't guarantee a supply to anyone. They might have more than one supply but they would pay for it. 

It's not a guaranteed supply. More a add on of if there is a planned outage we will supply you a generator.

Probably cheaper to do it yourself as well! And a backup genmerator permenantly in place would be the only way to guarantee permenant supply. (supose it could be a battery bank these days with the hope X hours will do). Of course the company I worked for doing that no loger exists. I am unsure if anyopne currently bolts such stuff on. But for the massive customers copntracts are always up for negociation I guess.

I guess OP could have got a UPS if it is that important to work at home. Ones designed for servers and say about the sizer of a full tower desktop would run one laptop for ages (and my phones have 10gb/20gb a month data that I never use, and I most work would not even touch it). Me, though I could still work at home these days. I do not need to be online.

Uxb1

Robin9 said:

Times must have changed then  - in my career with what was the Area Supply Boards (SWEB etc) we didn't guarantee a supply to anyone. They might have more than one supply but they would pay for it. 

There was a case decades ago reported by the then IEE in its journals
A continuous concrete pour operation was being conducted, possibly for a bridge but I cannot remember and there was a power cut.
This sort of thing you cannot stop once you have started so the whole lot had to be scrapped and re-done.
In the resulting court case about liability the contractors lost against the supplying electric company.
As I recall they had not set up a some sort of guaranteed supply contract for the work which would have involved a LOT of money with multiple segregated sources as backup against one supply tripping out. - it might even have meant a standalone Gas turbine 30MW last ditch reserve "portable unit" being on standby
I guess the price for this lot was not thought worth the risk - which on this particular day turned out to be the wrong decision.

silvercar

You are asking for compensation to go into work for a job that presumably you were happy to go into work to do before covid?