Big power off 10pm tonight

[Deleted User]

Have you heard about this doing the rounds on social media?

Apparently it worked for Spain and they got a reduction in energy prices. 

GingerTim

Sounds like a load of crap that will have zero impact on the grid.

Edit: it also seems to be predicated on something in Spain that didn't happen on any sort of scale, and where it was strikes and protests that prompted the government to introduce temporary measures on energy prices.

Petriix

Seems like a terrible idea. Generally using less power is great, but millions of people switching everything off for 10 minutes then back on again could bring down the grid.

Thrugelmir

Perhaps you missed the fact that the Spanish Government only views the measures as temporary due to the pressure on National budgets. 

Benny2020

See what the effect is here?
GB Fuel type power generation production (gridwatch.co.uk)

Ectophile

It's now 10.30, and nothing happened.  No sign of anything much happening at 10.00 on https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

MattMattMattUK

Ectophile said:

It's now 10.30, and nothing happened.  No sign of anything much happening at 10.00 on https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

I am sure there were a handful of people sat in the dark for ten minutes feeling very smug, followed by a total surge of a few kWh when they all turned their power back on.

Sea_Shell

It looks like I inadvertently took part*.    10pm!!!   I'm in bed, lights out by then every night!!!

I'm an early bird, not a night owl.



* unless they mean going out to the garage and turning the leccy off at the fuse box!! 

QrizB

The protest got quite a lot of coverage in Raach PLC's regional press (the "...live" news websites) but there are hardly any after-the-event reports.

The best I can find is YorkshireLive claiming "thousands took part" - which, in a nation of 23 million households, isn't a huge impact.

pochase

Reminds me of a show in the 70s where they used this for voting.

People in one named city would switch lights off and o ono vote and it was measured by who had the bigger increase in electricity.

GingerTim

QrizB said:

The protest got quite a lot of coverage in Raach PLC's regional press (the "...live" news websites) but there are hardly any after-the-event reports.

The best I can find is YorkshireLive claiming "thousands took part" - which, in a nation of 23 million households, isn't a huge impact.

When it trended on Twitter there were apparently 27k tweets on the topic - if that's anywhere near the maximum number of who took part, well.