Supplies are set to be tight at peak hour, so the grid could ask households to reduce the amount of energy they use.
Households across Britain could be paid on Tuesday evening to help take strain off the country’s energy grid as French nuclear plants will be unable to help deal with demand.
The scheme was launched earlier this month and has already been tested twice, but has not yet run live. “Even though wind is coming back for tomorrow evening’s peak, slow return of nukes in France plus lower temperatures may mean that there is a reduction in available imports across the interconnectors,” according to consultancy EnergyAppSys.
More than half of the nuclear reactors run by state energy company EDF have closed due to maintenance problems and technical issues. The system has been tested twice since it was launched a month ago. During both tests businesses and households banded together to reduce demand by a small but significant amount.It released data showing that its customers had helped reduce demand by more than 100 megawatts during both tests. That is the same amount of electricity that a small power plant produces.
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