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Chiara Fiorillo & Hannah Mackenzie Wood

Emergency blackout plan called off as Scots won't be paid to cut down energy use

The UK's electricity grid operator has said that households will not receive payment for cutting down energy usage tomorrow evening after expressing supply concerns. Earlier today, the National Grid's system operator announced that it was considering using its Demand Flexibility Service (DFS), which was set up to avoid blackouts.

At 10am, it said: "This is an indication that a DFS Service Requirement might be published today at 14:30. This will be Energy Tagged." However, at 2.30pm it confirmed that issuing a DFS would not be necessary, according to the Mirror.

The National Grid said: "Further to issuing the anticipated requirement notice. There is no longer considered to be a requirement for DFS."

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