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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
August Graham

Households to be paid again to slash electricity use as coal plants set on standby

The Tuesday session of the Demand Flexibility Service will come just 24 hours after the first live run took place between 5pm and 6pm on Monday (PA) (Picture: PA Archive)

Households will be paid to reduce their electricity use for two days in a row as coal plants were again set on standby in case electricity supplies fell too low.

The grid operator said it would call the second ever live run of a scheme which pays businesses and households to turn off some appliances for an hour or two.

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