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果冻影院-Energy PhD student Mike Fell has written for the 果冻影院-Energy blog, giving the background to a recent which explores what people think about efforts to influence when they use electricity:

What does it mean to be 鈥渋n control鈥� in relation to energy? And why does it matter? It鈥檚 perhaps easier to begin with the second question.

The subject of electricity blackouts has been recently. While the risk of blackouts is low, the continuing closure of older coal-powered generators means that there is less and less spare capacity on the grid to meet peaks in electricity demand.

Photo: 鈥�鈥� (cropped) by Sameer Vasta under a Creative Commons licence.