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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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    Ah yes, room heaters and water heaters. I think that the latter has been used once in the 20-odd years that we have been here. Our big boiler and cylinder will keep pace with a bath about every 20 minutes. I don't know how much power is transferred from the heating coil to the water, but clearly it is much faster than any electric heater. So potentially with gas failure, the immersion will be on for a few hours per day.


    How will we (or our descendants) cope when the gas runs out?
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    Ah yes, room heaters and water heaters. I think that the latter has been used once in the 20-odd years that we have been here. Our big boiler and cylinder will keep pace with a bath about every 20 minutes. I don't know how much power is transferred from the heating coil to the water, but clearly it is much faster than any electric heater. So potentially with gas failure, the immersion will be on for a few hours per day.


    How will we (or our descendants) cope when the gas runs out?
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