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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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    Alan Capon:

    Air in the system is only part of it. 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. Each property has to be visited and the main gas valve secured in the “off” position. Only then can gas be re-introduced into the pipe network. Once the mains have been filled and purged with air, each property needs visiting again, to turn the main valve back on and complete safety checks. 




    A few years ago, the gas board replaced its regulators at the end of the street. They used to be underground, but now they are in a cabinet above ground, which has been erected tastefully. Any road, I had a chat with the workmen and they told me that they had to be careful not to let air into the pipes, else we would all be cut off until every pipe had been purged with nitrogen. Just now, some of the old cast iron pipes are being replaced. Once again, the workmen were happy to chat about their work.


    On both occasions, the supply has been maintained, so no power cuts here. ?

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    Alan Capon:

    Air in the system is only part of it. 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. Each property has to be visited and the main gas valve secured in the “off” position. Only then can gas be re-introduced into the pipe network. Once the mains have been filled and purged with air, each property needs visiting again, to turn the main valve back on and complete safety checks. 




    A few years ago, the gas board replaced its regulators at the end of the street. They used to be underground, but now they are in a cabinet above ground, which has been erected tastefully. Any road, I had a chat with the workmen and they told me that they had to be careful not to let air into the pipes, else we would all be cut off until every pipe had been purged with nitrogen. Just now, some of the old cast iron pipes are being replaced. Once again, the workmen were happy to chat about their work.


    On both occasions, the supply has been maintained, so no power cuts here. ?

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