Steel factory evening shutdown to stop power cuts
Image caption,PublishedOne of the only steel tube factories in the UK said it was shutting down before the evening energy peak to help prevent electricity shortages.a worst-case scenarioThe Tata steelworks in Corby, Northamptonshire, has an electric furnace which uses the equivalent energy of 1,100 households, as well as a gas furnace for heating the steel.
Paul Ilko, from Tata, said: "We've deliberately scheduled our operations to avoid those evening hours, because that's when the peak demand for electric is on the system."Tata Steel manager Paul Ilko said the Corby factory had made a number of changes to use less energyMr Ilko said the factory, which has produced steel tubes for Wembley and the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, was only operating between 09:00 and 17:00.
He said that was "because of cost to ourselves but also in terms of stability of the system, making sure there is enough [electricity] to go around for everyone at that critical time". "We've done a lot over the years to improve our energy efficiency but we still consume a lot of energy," he said.The government is expected to announce hundreds of millions of pounds of support to help Britain's two biggest steelmakers, including Tata,He said the factory was due to replace the gas furnace with a more efficient electric convection one and make other changes to the mill to reduce energy usage.
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