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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Clea Skopeliti and Safi Bugel

‘The kids loved it’: readers on taking part in National Grid energy-saving trial

A boy sitting at a table with candles.
A boy sitting at a table with candles. Photograph: Deborah Pendell/Getty Images

Households were paid to cut back on their electricity use for an hour on Monday evening in the first test of a National Grid scheme aiming to cut energy consumption in Great Britain. The second trial was taking place on Tuesday, between 4.30pm and 6pm.

More than 1m households and businesses have signed up to the live -demand flexibility service.

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