In the event of an energy emergency, the ENA must ensure that customers’ energy needs are met according to priority. Essential environments (hospitals, emergency services, vulnerable customers etc.) must all be protected from power outages in such emergencies. Domestic customers must be treated fairly to ensure that even in the unusual event of planned outages they do have supply at times of the day for cooking etc. The RLD system collates information from all electricity suppliers who allocate a rota block letter by postcode which is used to manage electricity shortages during emergency periods. This will ensure that customers are off supply for the minimum possible duration, whilst ensuring the national grid has supply to meet all essential connections.
PowerDev’s system collates information sent in in Excel or CSV format into a web-based lookup system which allows a postcode to be entered and essential RLD data to be displayed.