ESB Peak Events notification

Home users like us minimal impact..but maybe in a few years when we get more and more PV then yeah possibly.

I'd imagine where they get the biggest impact is from these large energy users who are on demand response schemes. A good few years ago ( about 15 years) ago I was involved for a local authority in a demand response scheme. Where we were paid a couple of grand a year (I forget but it was substantial enough maybe €10-15000 year) just to be on standy-by to cut consumption and ramp up consumption. We had a 1500 KVA connection for pumping water that where we had enough buffer to cut the pumping for a half hour. Back then it wasnt too much energy…but it was not enough…so it was cutting mostly. But we had a direct connection and they used to test us once or twice a year as well. You would need a lot of houses to be turning on dishwashers to use up 1500 kW! 😋

I hear big refrigeration warehouses can bump up and cut off consumption easy enough they have enough buffer again to cut for an hour or so or ramp up for an hour, does not make too much of an impact on them. 

I got €12. Can I combine them? Or do I have to spend separately? I think I have €3 or €6 from last month too...

Same here in Galway

I usually use them in Tesco self service tills, no real issues.

All I can think of is that there'll be less business air conditioning load at this time of day.

I suspect some of this is testing to see what the response is rather than being due to a need. I wonder are they also going to ever actually compare to meter data - some people are saying Yes to get their reward when they did nothing; but others with generation and/or battery are actually making changes and there won't be anything to see

Amazing I got one for 9-11am today - says there will be "excess renewable gen in my area (Kildare ). There is no wind so it must be solar or Turlough Hill ;-( .. But Solar won't peak till maybe 11 am - and as mentioned wind is below 200 MW (<5% of capacity) for the whole country this morning 9-12.

I really wonder who actually sends these and are they realistic ? Does anybody audit this?

Is there something funny going on to discredit DSM or is it just someone looking at a weather forecast picture.

The time zones have definitely been regionalised before, although as I have two MPRNs I have no idea which region I'm considered as being "in". I always answer the Dublin-area one and not the Donegal one though.

Just got a text, foe a turn up event tomorrow 9am to 11am , for Cork City

There is a bit of wind - maybe 2000 MW but the cold snap probably means DCs are using less energy - 2 of the 3 interconnectors were doing the usual importation of about 1000 MW this morning