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

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: 3, Interesting) by DannyB on Wednesday October 13 2021, @05:00PM (8 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 13 2021, @05:00PM (#1186698) Journal

    The UK could research how to generate electricity from rainfall.

    Or wave power. Or offshore windmills. Nevermind that Trump says that the sound from windmills causes cancer.

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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13 2021, @05:03PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13 2021, @05:03PM (#1186700)

    You've got that long-TDS, Danny boy. You know it's going to interfere with your ability to do anything other than shitpost.

    • (Score: 5, Touché) by DannyB on Wednesday October 13 2021, @05:07PM (3 children)

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 13 2021, @05:07PM (#1186703) Journal

      I rarely mention him. But he did say what I described. What's the matter? Don't you take your own supreme being's warning seriously?

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      • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13 2021, @05:09PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13 2021, @05:09PM (#1186704)

        I rarely mention him.

        So, you're practicing a comedy routine?

        • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday October 13 2021, @09:02PM

          by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 13 2021, @09:02PM (#1186782) Journal

          Talking about covid, vaccines, and various political topics is not an express or implied mention of the T one who shall not be named.

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      • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday October 13 2021, @06:12PM

        by JoeMerchant (3937) on Wednesday October 13 2021, @06:12PM (#1186720)

        Hard to tell if the windmill caused cancer in the bird or not, when the bird has been smacked out of the air 200' above ground and plummets to a grisly death below.

        Too bad carrot top doesn't insist on implementing his own big brained ideas on himself...

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14 2021, @11:15PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14 2021, @11:15PM (#1187147)

    Parent said:
    "The UK could research how to generate electricity from rainfall."

    It's called a DAM.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14 2021, @11:21PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14 2021, @11:21PM (#1187149)

      -nomsg

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14 2021, @11:25PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14 2021, @11:25PM (#1187152)

        Note: Author of parent reply and grandparent reply are same AC: me.
        "re-read" scans the same as re-red or re-reed.