boothy wrote:
We’ve had bare unscheduled power cuts lately, for a few hours each. Really fucked over the pub I was working at, it was packed and then the power went off.
we’re lucky at work because where our sites are situated are on the corner of two villages and there are multiple feed points for both the high voltage (11 000 v) and low voltage (400/230 V) networks – and to be fair EDF try and do a good job especially as one of our sites is an old peoples home so its a major emergency if power is lost..
the bigger problem is since the electric was privatised, there has been less investment on the important stuff like the cables and equipment that gets the power to your houses and businesses safely, and money has been lost on this artificial “free market” for what should be a local publically owned resource.
The old Electricity Boards worked perfectly well by the 1980s – the power mostly stayed on, it wasn’t excessively expensive and they could still do “free market” stuff like selling tellies and cookers if they wanted to.
