> Residents across the country are being urged to switch off their lights and televisions tonight for the ‘Big Power Off’. A campaign has been launched urging people to turn off all electrical items in their homes for ten minutes at 10pm – as long as it is safe.
> The move is designed to highlight the cost of living crisis, exacerbated by spiralling energy bills. It has been billed as a “non-partisan action protest” and is trending on Twitter with more than 10,000 tweets.
My power bill for the last 4 months is £1236.
And the rate has just increased another 33%.
I live in a one bed flat.
Edit: bill is £1,215.95
I don’t have a gas connection in my flat, electric heating is less efficient. Fuck the Tories.
Only 10k tweets. Maybe they should have paid some professional publicity agents.
I have never heard of this till now, and at 10pm, I’m going to be in bed. Along with probably a lot of people who need to work in the morning. I suspect it will be very difficult to differentiate 10 mins of power off people and the general “going to bed” switch off.
Haha, people who have no idea of how the grid works or its demands making up bullshit to get likes on social media and make them feel like they are doing things…
Domestic is a very small amount of the grids actual demand, industry and country lighting is a larger factor.
Hell half the gas compressors on the gas side are in the 8-10MW area and they switch on and off when required and the grid handles them perfectly fine…
(8MW when put in 230vac and a average house pulling 20amps at the moment would be 2,300 plus houses)
The worst it will do is trip your local distributor at the end of the road but I doubt it unless everyone maxes out there alloted circuit current.
You want to lower costs, Petition your councils to turn off the office and Street lights.
Well I just missed this and it’s now twenty five past ten. Has the energy crisis been solved now?
And here’s me thinking it was something to do with a comet or something, to make sky-gazing easier.
[https://www.earthhour.org/](https://www.earthhour.org/) did this last month. I imagine the turnout was similarly poor. There’s loads of these events and none of them advertise themselves at all.
Alright fess up, which of you lot posted during this
I think if this is to have any effect 10pm on a Sunday is probably not the beat time. Try prime time or middle of the afternoon.
I didn’t even know it was a thing and as a waiter who is on zero hour contract, does mornings and evenings, just did a three shift per day weekend, i literally did not have time to put the tv on and without lights, i wouldn’t be able to prepare for today.
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> Residents across the country are being urged to switch off their lights and televisions tonight for the ‘Big Power Off’. A campaign has been launched urging people to turn off all electrical items in their homes for ten minutes at 10pm – as long as it is safe.
> The move is designed to highlight the cost of living crisis, exacerbated by spiralling energy bills. It has been billed as a “non-partisan action protest” and is trending on Twitter with more than 10,000 tweets.
My power bill for the last 4 months is £1236.
And the rate has just increased another 33%.
I live in a one bed flat.
Edit: bill is £1,215.95
I don’t have a gas connection in my flat, electric heating is less efficient. Fuck the Tories.
Only 10k tweets. Maybe they should have paid some professional publicity agents.
I have never heard of this till now, and at 10pm, I’m going to be in bed. Along with probably a lot of people who need to work in the morning. I suspect it will be very difficult to differentiate 10 mins of power off people and the general “going to bed” switch off.
Haha, people who have no idea of how the grid works or its demands making up bullshit to get likes on social media and make them feel like they are doing things…
Domestic is a very small amount of the grids actual demand, industry and country lighting is a larger factor.
Hell half the gas compressors on the gas side are in the 8-10MW area and they switch on and off when required and the grid handles them perfectly fine…
(8MW when put in 230vac and a average house pulling 20amps at the moment would be 2,300 plus houses)
The worst it will do is trip your local distributor at the end of the road but I doubt it unless everyone maxes out there alloted circuit current.
You want to lower costs, Petition your councils to turn off the office and Street lights.
Well I just missed this and it’s now twenty five past ten. Has the energy crisis been solved now?
And here’s me thinking it was something to do with a comet or something, to make sky-gazing easier.
[https://www.earthhour.org/](https://www.earthhour.org/) did this last month. I imagine the turnout was similarly poor. There’s loads of these events and none of them advertise themselves at all.
Alright fess up, which of you lot posted during this
I think if this is to have any effect 10pm on a Sunday is probably not the beat time. Try prime time or middle of the afternoon.
I didn’t even know it was a thing and as a waiter who is on zero hour contract, does mornings and evenings, just did a three shift per day weekend, i literally did not have time to put the tv on and without lights, i wouldn’t be able to prepare for today.