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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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    One of the risks is an appliance without a “flame failure device” fitted on either a burner or a pilot light, and the liability involved with unintentionally filling a property with unburnt gas





    It is interesting to think that at the time that much of the gas pipes were going in, in the era of far the more explosive and poisonous coal gas, many houses had coin slot meters, and flame detection was not yet invented.  Presumably, when the meter ran out and  the flame went out , if you then put the money in without first turning off the lights, gas fires, cooker if you had one etc , it would cheerfully fill the room with gas. I know it figures in the odd Agatha Christie story, but I presume there were not soo many accidents, as folk were very aware and thus  more careful. Or perhaps homes were more draughty, so it never built up.


    In that way we mix a Victorian infrastructure design with 21st century safety rules, and create a delay. One could imagine an ECV that shuts off if pressure is lost, but it is not what is done.
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    One of the risks is an appliance without a “flame failure device” fitted on either a burner or a pilot light, and the liability involved with unintentionally filling a property with unburnt gas





    It is interesting to think that at the time that much of the gas pipes were going in, in the era of far the more explosive and poisonous coal gas, many houses had coin slot meters, and flame detection was not yet invented.  Presumably, when the meter ran out and  the flame went out , if you then put the money in without first turning off the lights, gas fires, cooker if you had one etc , it would cheerfully fill the room with gas. I know it figures in the odd Agatha Christie story, but I presume there were not soo many accidents, as folk were very aware and thus  more careful. Or perhaps homes were more draughty, so it never built up.


    In that way we mix a Victorian infrastructure design with 21st century safety rules, and create a delay. One could imagine an ECV that shuts off if pressure is lost, but it is not what is done.
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