{"id":1218404,"date":"2022-10-07T12:42:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T12:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/07\/uk-government-not-asking-people-to-use-less-energy-minister-says\/"},"modified":"2022-10-07T12:42:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T12:42:01","slug":"uk-government-not-asking-people-to-use-less-energy-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/07\/uk-government-not-asking-people-to-use-less-energy-minister-says\/","title":{"rendered":"UK government not asking people to use less energy, minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_108\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-prod.iol.co.za\/16x9\/800?source=https:\/\/xlibris.public.prod.oc.inl.infomaker.io:8443\/opencontent\/objects\/851fe3b5-50cb-5794-94d5-807ac42349da\" class=\"type:primaryImage\"\/><\/p>\n<p>LONDON \u2013 The UK government was not asking people to use less energy, a day after the National Grid warned that the country could face three-hour planned power cuts to homes and businesses this winter, Britain\u2019s climate minister Graham Stuart said on Friday<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe plan for all eventualities and the public should be confident that we have a very strong and diverse supply, and that we\u2019ve taken all the steps to look after our needs for this winter,\u201d he told Sky News.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if people should be using less energy, Stuart said: \u201cWe are not sending that out as a message.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>National Grid\u2019s warning on possible blackouts was based on a worst-case scenario, if Britain is unable to import electricity from Europe and struggles to attract enough gas imports to fuel its gas-fired power.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/world\/uk-government-not-asking-people-to-use-less-energy-minister-says-a7eba8b7-3211-5a7f-b952-cfb284bfa156\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2013 The UK government was not asking people to use less energy, a day after the National Grid warned that the country could face three-hour planned power cuts to homes and businesses this winter, Britain\u2019s climate minister Graham Stuart said on Friday \u201cWe plan for all eventualities and the public should be confident that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1218404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1218404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1218404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1218404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1218404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}