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Lately there's been a bit of talk about the electric grid. For example, in the UK they are (planning to?) offering free electricity when the production is higher than consumption, to stabilize the grid so they don't have to turn off wind turbines and stuff like that.
Of course this earth hour thing is scheduled, so the power plants can prepare for it, but I do wonder if its doing more bad than good?
I mean obviously saving electricity is good but would be interesting to know what sort of preparations the electricity providers will have to do because of this. I don't know if its a joke or not but I've heard that during big football matches the UK electricity providers have to prepare for the intermission because so many people go put the kettle on.
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Alan Clifford 🏌️♂️🦈 📷