#UKPowerNetworks #rescue a #cat from the top of an #electricity pole carrying 11 000 V

This #electricity #meter doesn't exist. The #UKPowerNetworks database record that it was removed from the premises in 2018, presumably when a tenant stopped paying.

It was a #mystery why, when we bought the cottage, #ScottishPower could not find a record of it. Now we know. We guess that every occupier of the cottage since 2018 has had free electricity.

It didn't help that Scottish Power has the address of the cottage ending in 4AP, when it should end 3AQ.

1st power cut of the year.
#ukpowernetworks

I’m lucky enough to live one of these areas of eastern England, where #OctopusEnergy and #UKPowerNetworks are running a trial where electricity is free for specific periods of peak renewable generating capacity. We’re in the middle of the first such 2-hour window right now, so we’ve turned everything we can on. We’ve been managing to draw about 18 kW from the grid for the first hour, on top of roughly 2 kW we’re generating from our own solar array.

#sydenham #se26 #crystalpalace #manholes

Spotted at the corner of Lawrie Park Avenue & Lawrie Park Gardens is a manhole sporting the inscription "The Crystal Palace District Electric Supply Co Ltd".

Google tells us the company was set up in 1891 to supply power to the Palace from the Sydenham Power Station - location unknown. They also served the houses being built in the area - and it is still doing so as part of #UKPowerNetworks I guess.