Feb 8, 2022
British households offered free electricity to cut consumption
British households will be offered financial incentives to limit their electricity use during periods of peak demand in a two-month pilot scheme to test how consumers can help balance the grid and potentially reduce the need for new power stations. National Grid ESO, which is in charge of managing Britain's electricity system, is working with household supplier Octopus Energy on what is expected to be the biggest study of its kind into the role domestic consumers can play in helping to balance electricity supply and demand. Organisations such as the Climate Change Committee, an independent organisation that advises the UK government, have warned that electricity consumption will have to become increasingly "Flexible" as the country builds more clean electricity generation capacity such as offshore wind, which is dependent on the weather. If customers meet their targets, any electricity they used during those two-hour windows will be free. "If you can do the same thing by reducing electricity consumption then that's just as good a solution."
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