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An increase in electricity demand?

AncientMariner
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-50613678


"Electric heaters and cookers were being offered to elderly or sick customers, and those with young children."


Certainly if we lost our gas supply, whilst we aleady cook electric, our heating is gas fired CH. To maintain comfort levels I could see three or four 2 kW fan heaters being utilised for much of the day. As for domestic water heating, a kettle or two. 


I seem to remember a previous gas problem where the local gas supplier took round electric heaters to affected houses and blew a few main fuses....???


The photograph of the SGN vehicle with a sat dish and two air conditioners has me wondering. If the a/c units are to get rid of excessive heat build up, then besides the load of the TWO a/c compressors, I wonder what they have in the van - besides a rather large gene??


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    The van pictured now (the large one with the 2 heat exchanges above the cab, not the small one that accompanied the article yesterday) looks ike a mobile control centre. I do not know the specifics of the kit out,  but I strongly suspect  that yes it contains some comms, but is also can serve as rather cramped meeting room, a wash room and  first aid post, tea drinking facility and at a real push, a perhaps a few people could sleep uncomfortably in it. Such things can be augmented by caravans and containers that have telescopic sections  that unfold to make rooms and other facilities. Any organisation of any size with a patch that covers areas that are out of town needs this and any Scottish utility will need the ability to handle incidents that are miles from anywhere.

    The air con will be mainly for sunny weather,  and meetings with lots of people,  and means you do not need to waste fuel to run the van engine just for cooling. There may well be a small generator as an auxilliary power supply  that may or may not share a fuel tank with the main engine, so that you can do more than you can with batteries and a big inverter.


    I agree, issuing folk with plug in heaters is likely to lead to substation overheating, though as the whole point is that weather is cold,  maybe a transient  overload to 200% might be acceptable, though voltage is likely to droop. The complete solution will have to involve blankets and more clothes.
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    The van pictured now (the large one with the 2 heat exchanges above the cab, not the small one that accompanied the article yesterday) looks ike a mobile control centre. I do not know the specifics of the kit out,  but I strongly suspect  that yes it contains some comms, but is also can serve as rather cramped meeting room, a wash room and  first aid post, tea drinking facility and at a real push, a perhaps a few people could sleep uncomfortably in it. Such things can be augmented by caravans and containers that have telescopic sections  that unfold to make rooms and other facilities. Any organisation of any size with a patch that covers areas that are out of town needs this and any Scottish utility will need the ability to handle incidents that are miles from anywhere.

    The air con will be mainly for sunny weather,  and meetings with lots of people,  and means you do not need to waste fuel to run the van engine just for cooling. There may well be a small generator as an auxilliary power supply  that may or may not share a fuel tank with the main engine, so that you can do more than you can with batteries and a big inverter.


    I agree, issuing folk with plug in heaters is likely to lead to substation overheating, though as the whole point is that weather is cold,  maybe a transient  overload to 200% might be acceptable, though voltage is likely to droop. The complete solution will have to involve blankets and more clothes.
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