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"Dave Plowman (News)" writes:
In article ,
David wrote:
I have recently received an email from UK Power Networks inviting me to
register for additional help in the event of a power cut.

Qualifications a

"Who can apply

� Customers who are dependent on medical equipment

� Customers who are chronically ill

� Customers with a disability

� Customers who are visually impaired or blind

� Customers who are hearing impaired or deaf

� Elderly customers

� A nursing or residential home

� Customers with young babies in household

� Any other case that you would like us to consider"

I do wonder just what that help would be? I really can't see them
installing a temporary generator for all those classes.

Cynical me says it may be just a PR exercise.

Some ~20 years ago, my street reached the point where the ring mains
was broken in 2 places underground, and although we all still had
power through backfeeding, they decided they needed to repair it.
That was a planned outage for a day, and a large generator was parked
up to keep power on to 1 or 2 houses for the day. I didn't know the
people in those, but I guess there was someone with a medial need.

--
Andrew Gabriel
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