Mail online article about how the rolling blackouts will be planned and implemented.

roddydogs

Were all doooomed captain Manwaring.

MattMattMattUK

ariarnia said:

we seem to have a lot of 'S' on the forum. can i check where everyone is seeing the letter? if it's this letter that you are seeing then i dont think that's it. either that or a disproportional number of people all live in the same area. 


https://www.electricityprices.org.uk/mpas-online/

I am not 100% sure that the "S" in this case is the block, as the guidance I can see mentions that it should be near the address line, in a small square box. It could have been moved and I am happy to be proven otherwise, but I don't think it is the S in the block you have shown. 

[Deleted User]

A few points:

It isn't controversial at all.  It's simple, efficient, understandable, and broadly equitable given the need to be those first three.  It isn't, however, designed to make your personal power outages at the time that you would most like them.  The most important part of the system for a householder (and business owner I guess) is that you know when your outage (if one is ever planned) will be - no bidding process, back calculating, choosing someone else because you had it bad last time, or anything else that would just add complexity to a system that does not need it.

Every DNO has the same blocks.  There is no nonsense like "the rich in the south have less outages".  There is no block F, I or O.

It is designed to concentrate any block's outages either in Mon-Wed or Thur-Sat initially such that (amongst other things) businesses could use those three days as their weekend.  The Sunday rota is necessary but is the least likely to be used given the next point.

It is directly linked to actual available power.  It will be determined by 2pm each day whether there will be any disconnections required the following day, and the timings of the required disconnections will be known by 5:30pm.  It does not mean that someone will announce "rolling blackouts now" and then everyone gets disconnected according to this schedule indefinitely.

No, your home insurance will not cover your freezer in this time.  It might also not cover broken electrical equipment from the switching on/off process.

And it's also a lot better than the LFDD that would happen if we didn't bother with the plan.  That's happened a couple of times in the last decade or so, and caused more problems that we thought each time.

k_man

ariarnia said:

we seem to have a lot of 'S' on the forum. can i check where everyone is seeing the letter? if it's this letter that you are seeing then i dont think that's it. either that or a disproportional number of people all live in the same area. 


https://www.electricityprices.org.uk/mpas-online/

Correct, that S at the start of the meter information is not the load block.

It will be somewhere else on the bill.

ariarnia

MattMattMattUK said:

ariarnia said:

we seem to have a lot of 'S' on the forum. can i check where everyone is seeing the letter? if it's this letter that you are seeing then i dont think that's it. either that or a disproportional number of people all live in the same area. 


https://www.electricityprices.org.uk/mpas-online/

I am not 100% sure that the "S" in this case is the block, as the guidance I can see mentions that it should be near the address line, in a small square box. It could have been moved and I am happy to be proven otherwise, but I don't think it is the S in the block you have shown. 

yes that was exactly what i said. that i don't think that's it. i think that block is on every bill and wonder if some of the people who say they are in s are seeing this and mistaking it for the letter. either that or theres a lot of s on the forum.  

CSH1

Its not that big S, I thought I was that at first and then realised it is the letter which is under your address in a box on the bill, mine was for BG and mine is U, so for BG straight under your address in a small box, probably similar for other companies

GingerTim

Good old EDF - the box containing this info on my bills is blank.

MattMattMattUK

Interestingly though, I have the box where the load block should be, but on my bill it is blank. I also know that I am on the same circuit as the local hospital which is very close, so I am wondering if that means I am on a line that should in theory never be turned off, or if for some reason EDF and British Gas before them never chose to populate the field that should show in that box. 

FreeBear

GingerTim said:

Good old EDF - the box containing this info on my bills is blank.

Good old Eon.Next, I don't even have a box.

 But then, looking at older bills from Solarplicity and Toto The Clowns, didn't have a box on them either.

dunstonh

For those with Bulb, the identifier is on page 1 of your bill by your address in a box.