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National Grid pays households to ration power use The Telegraph

The National Grid is paying households to ration their power usage at peak times amid a scramble to reduce pressure on Britain’s energy infrastructure.

From Friday up to 1.4m households will be paid if they cut their normal electricity consumption at certain two-hour periods during the day, as an experiment to see how households’ behavior might be changed.

The move is a pilot scheme intended to pave the way for a broader overhaul of the country’s billing system as the UK ditches reliable but dirty fossil fuel plants.

http://archive.today/2022.02.08-081732/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/02/08/national-grid-pays-households-ration-power-use/