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#ukpowernetworks

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Simon Cox :SEO:<p>1st power cut of the year. <br><a href="https://seocommunity.social/tags/ukpowernetworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ukpowernetworks</span></a></p>
Ben Avison<p>I’m lucky enough to live one of these areas of eastern England, where <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/OctopusEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OctopusEnergy</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/UKPowerNetworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKPowerNetworks</span></a> are running a trial where electricity is free for specific periods of peak renewable generating capacity. We’re in the middle of the first such 2-hour window right now, so we’ve turned everything we can on. We’ve been managing to draw about 18 kW from the grid for the first hour, on top of roughly 2 kW we’re generating from our own solar array.</p>
Sydenham News & Views<p><a href="https://social.brainsys.com/tags/sydenham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sydenham</span></a> <a href="https://social.brainsys.com/tags/se26" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>se26</span></a> <a href="https://social.brainsys.com/tags/crystalpalace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crystalpalace</span></a> <a href="https://social.brainsys.com/tags/manholes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>manholes</span></a></p><p>Spotted at the corner of Lawrie Park Avenue &amp; Lawrie Park Gardens is a manhole sporting the inscription "The Crystal Palace District Electric Supply Co Ltd".</p><p>Google tells us the company was set up in 1891 to supply power to the Palace from the Sydenham Power Station - location unknown. They also served the houses being built in the area - and it is still doing so as part of <a href="https://social.brainsys.com/tags/UKPowerNetworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKPowerNetworks</span></a> I guess.</p>
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