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Do Little2 wrote:
Yes, but the limiting factors are the few wires connecting to Europe.
How much voltage/current can they handle? Certainly, for the bottom
line, someone in the UK will know just how much electricity they can
export/sell or must import/buy on any given day.

They're used when demand is low in one country while high in another.

FWIW, I can't remember an outage here in this part of London.
Nor do I have or need an UPS etc. Of course there are rural parts
that still may have problems due to overhead lines etc.

True, I also heard some horror stories about old electricity switches
in some rural areas of the UK. Apparently they were still using "open air
240 Volts line switches" like the old knife type. Scary stuff indeed. :-)

Don't be silly. All overhead supplied domestic supplies are RCD protected.
Fitted by the supply provider.

None of the silly thermal devices so loved across the pond. ;-)

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