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UK Proposes Law to Switch Off EV Home Chargers During Peak Hours

posted by janrinok on Wednesday October 13 2021, @02:28PM   Printer-friendly
from the what-about-shift-workers dept.

upstart writes:

UK Proposes Law To Switch Off EV Home Chargers During Peak Hours:

The United Kingdom plans to pass legislation that will see EV home and workplace chargers being switched off at peak times to avoid blackouts.

Announced by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, the proposed law stipulates that electric car chargers installed at home or at the workplace may not function for up to nine hours a day to avoid overloading the national electricity grid.

As of May 30, 2022, new home and workplace chargers being installed must be "smart" chargers connected to the internet and able to employ pre-sets limiting their ability to function from 8 am to 11 am and 4 pm to 10 pm. However, users of home chargers will be able to override the pre-sets should they need to, although it's not clear how often they will be able to do that.

[...] In addition to the nine hours a day of downtime, authorities will be able to impose a "randomized delay" of 30 minutes on individual chargers in certain areas to prevent grid spikes at other times.

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by epitaxial on Wednesday October 13 2021, @03:24PM (2 children)

    by epitaxial (3165) on Wednesday October 13 2021, @03:24PM (#1186675)

    Is there an actual link to the announcement? I can't find any other source besides this low rent blog style site.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13 2021, @03:55PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13 2021, @03:55PM (#1186682)

    What's wrong with the source? This story is right there next to the "Biden is going to outlaw hamburgers" story. :P

    • (Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13 2021, @05:06PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13 2021, @05:06PM (#1186702)

      All you have to do is ring the bell from an ice cream truck, and Biden will forget whatever he was doing.