Thank you for attending SSENs Stakeholder Event to discuss how we can work together to support homes and businesses this winter.
We are pleased to share your questions answered along with the material presented during the session.
In addition to this you can also access the downloadable version of our Home Emergency Plan. A Home Emergency Plan can be used as a vital tool in your household (or to help another family member who does not live with you) to be prepared in an emergency situation, like a power cut.
For any further information please visit our Emergency Planning Portal which provides you with helpful advice and tools on how you can prepare for the winter. Alternatively, you can email stakeholder.engagement@sse.com
You may have seen widespread media coverage in recent weeks regarding a 'last resort' scenario of planned emergency power cuts to manage potentially reduced energy supplies from Europe this winter. As we head into the winter months, we are engaging with our stakeholders and communicating with our customers to ensure they are aware of our role in this industry-wide response.
This is in addition to year-round engagement with Local Resilience Forums and Partnerships to ensure Civil Contingencies preparations can be activated in the event of this emergency scenario.
The electricity system operator, National Grid ESO, constantly monitors the required amount of electricity needed to be able to power homes and businesses across Great Britain while simultaneously monitoring the amount of electricity being generated. In rare instances, scenarios can occur when the demand for electricity is higher than the amount of electricity being generated. As one of the six DNOs in Great Britain, it is our role to operate under instruction from National Grid ESO, should it decide that the only way to balance the system and prevent a more serious failure is to ‘shed load’ through planned customer disconnections. The triggering of this decision and sequence of events is detailed in the Electricity Supply Emergency Code (ESEC), which is a managed emergency process between industry and the UK Government.
24 November 2022 — 11:30 - 13:00
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