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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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    Worrying in the context of talk that gas burning appliances in homes may be phased out in the foreseeable future!


    Some home energy efficiency measures could obviously limit demand, as could home electricity and/or heat generation and storage. However the capital costs and payback period would be prohibitive for most householders. Local energy production may also be impractical/uneconomic in many situations.  


    The talk of “phasing out gas boilers” caused me to reflect on my own situation, ie could I replace gas with electric?  I haven’t tried to work this out properly, but I can get adequate central heating and hot water from my compact wall mounted gas boiler (Worcester Greenstar) running for a small fraction of the day.  The same energy could probably be delivered by an electric boiler of more modest rating (say 3 KW) running for longer? But what if everyone in the street/city/country did that?        

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    Worrying in the context of talk that gas burning appliances in homes may be phased out in the foreseeable future!


    Some home energy efficiency measures could obviously limit demand, as could home electricity and/or heat generation and storage. However the capital costs and payback period would be prohibitive for most householders. Local energy production may also be impractical/uneconomic in many situations.  


    The talk of “phasing out gas boilers” caused me to reflect on my own situation, ie could I replace gas with electric?  I haven’t tried to work this out properly, but I can get adequate central heating and hot water from my compact wall mounted gas boiler (Worcester Greenstar) running for a small fraction of the day.  The same energy could probably be delivered by an electric boiler of more modest rating (say 3 KW) running for longer? But what if everyone in the street/city/country did that?        

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