Well from Wednesday until next Monday I see we are forecast another spell of bitterly cold weather so fingerless gloves, scarves and multiple layers are all ready for use.
Has everybody seen the document issued by the National Grid giving details of how power cuts will be allocated by day, time and region if the demand for heating and electricity gets overwhelmed by an exceptionally cold spell? Worth a read so you can be prepared.
Will sign off and try to come back with a specific link.
Early Winter Bits and Bobs.
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Primrose
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Here's the National Grid Power Cut information:
All information is detailed in the link below:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/gov ... idance.pdf
Roughly how the blackouts will work:
Essentially each day is split into 8 x three hour periods starting from 00.30 (half past midnight.)
The blackouts will then be imposed in a series of eighteen levels of severity. They start at Level 1 where blackouts will occur in three hour periods, perhaps once or twice on three days of the week. Blackout days vary by Locations A to U and severity levels move up to Level 18 which represents a total blackout across the country.
To find out which location you are in, you need to look at your electricity bill. It varies where on the bill you will find this information according to the electricity company who supplies you, but the information takes the form of a small black box with a letter of the alphabet in it.
After Blackout Level 6 , everybody will have at least one period of blackout every day. After about Level 8, you might be starting to look for when the power is ON rather than when it is OFF!
Hopefully the bad weather situation will not come to this, but having this information gives a greater degree of certainty as to when you could be cut off if the system is implemented so you can plan certain essential activities in advance like charging mobiles or cooking meals. . Of course there may still be blackouts due to breakdowns rather than disconnections.
You have to wade through several pages of industry protocols on the above document link before you reach the relevant location schedules and individual blackout levels which are located at the end of the document.
The above information does assume there will be some advance notification based on the availability of weather forecasts, and the actual level of blackout severity being imposed.
Anybody wanting a visual illustration of the above might find this brief YouTube video helpful.
https://youtu.be/biDga4JOPjY
All information is detailed in the link below:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/gov ... idance.pdf
Roughly how the blackouts will work:
Essentially each day is split into 8 x three hour periods starting from 00.30 (half past midnight.)
The blackouts will then be imposed in a series of eighteen levels of severity. They start at Level 1 where blackouts will occur in three hour periods, perhaps once or twice on three days of the week. Blackout days vary by Locations A to U and severity levels move up to Level 18 which represents a total blackout across the country.
To find out which location you are in, you need to look at your electricity bill. It varies where on the bill you will find this information according to the electricity company who supplies you, but the information takes the form of a small black box with a letter of the alphabet in it.
After Blackout Level 6 , everybody will have at least one period of blackout every day. After about Level 8, you might be starting to look for when the power is ON rather than when it is OFF!
Hopefully the bad weather situation will not come to this, but having this information gives a greater degree of certainty as to when you could be cut off if the system is implemented so you can plan certain essential activities in advance like charging mobiles or cooking meals. . Of course there may still be blackouts due to breakdowns rather than disconnections.
You have to wade through several pages of industry protocols on the above document link before you reach the relevant location schedules and individual blackout levels which are located at the end of the document.
The above information does assume there will be some advance notification based on the availability of weather forecasts, and the actual level of blackout severity being imposed.
Anybody wanting a visual illustration of the above might find this brief YouTube video helpful.
https://youtu.be/biDga4JOPjY
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Sadly Primrose the links don't work due to the forum upgrade, it is fast becoming unusable on here.
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Well the last of my seed orders arrived today so just need to write the masterplan, mind I've not got a diary yet so that could be tricky. Some came from a company I haven't used before, Seed Megastore, they've all come very professionally packaged and they were competitive particularly for beans. I've opened some packets and they look fine. Used 6 different companies in the end with a mixture of Black (Brown) Friday deals and just good prices, odd how different companies are competitive for different things, enough difference to justify several p&p charges. Picked the last of the tomatoes today too and cleared the plants, didn't want them turning to mush as the temperature drops later in the week, well supposed to be later in the week but the temperature has just gone negative.
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Regards power cuts are you aware of this "Our Priority Services Register (PSR) provides extra help and additional support during a power cut for elderly, very ill or disabled people, or those who rely on power for medical equipment."
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I wonder what their support is? Maybe little generators for those with medical equipment? We have so many elderly down here they might as just well leave the electricity on continuously!
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Colin2016
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I get a text when ever there is going to be/or is power cut with number to call.
Personally that is all I need so I can be prepared.
Even had a letter telling me when the power was going off because they are cutting trees down. I arrange for the cuttings to be left on my drive for use on allotment.
This is a copy & past link for more information
www.nationalgrid.co.uk/customers-and-community/priority-services
Personally that is all I need so I can be prepared.
Even had a letter telling me when the power was going off because they are cutting trees down. I arrange for the cuttings to be left on my drive for use on allotment.
This is a copy & past link for more information
www.nationalgrid.co.uk/customers-and-community/priority-services
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tigerburnie
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That copy and paste might just save the forum as we should still be able to look at peoples pictures.
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Geoff
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I notice the weather link in my signature still works so not all links are blocked. Tigerburnie, perhaps as a workaround you could create a link in your signature to your photographs then change the content it points to from time to time.
In the meantime, I know it might not be a good idea to rock the boat too hard but I wondered if Peter has a way of contacting Darren to ask him to look at our comments in the upgrade thread, even if he tells us links and likes will never be enabled it would be sort of a way forward.
I'm not on any other forums but wondered if anybody has seen one with the same footer "powered by phpBB" that works better?
PS : I just followed the link in the footer to PlanetStyles and tried to send them a message using their response form but it came back with "Conflict" - no idea what that tells me.
In the meantime, I know it might not be a good idea to rock the boat too hard but I wondered if Peter has a way of contacting Darren to ask him to look at our comments in the upgrade thread, even if he tells us links and likes will never be enabled it would be sort of a way forward.
I'm not on any other forums but wondered if anybody has seen one with the same footer "powered by phpBB" that works better?
PS : I just followed the link in the footer to PlanetStyles and tried to send them a message using their response form but it came back with "Conflict" - no idea what that tells me.
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tigerburnie
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I will give it a try later Peter, if I'm not shovelling snow that is !!
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I just pressed the tag marked youtube on this page, it just comes up with the above non working link, pity someone can't tell us how to use the site, it would benefit everyone if at least the moderator knows how to work it.
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I just pressed the tag marked youtube on this page, it just comes up with the above non working link, pity someone can't tell us how to use the site, it would benefit everyone if at least the moderator knows how to work it.
Been gardening for over 65 years and still learning.