Christmas lights and Enery crisis

[SunshineAndSummer]

The Christmas lights outside and particulary around central london look very lovely. But how are they being lit up when the government has spoken of possible blackouts due to this energy crisis we are going through? Am I missing something.

Batteries. Lots of AA batteries.

Because the government don’t really care where the money comes from to pay for the electricity.

Yes, you are missing how little energy the lights use when compared to anything that moves / heats up (washing machines, dishwashers, heating at home, and vehicles / industrial processes outside it).

Most will be LED lights won’t they? They use tiny amounts of energy.

I know somone who'd house is covered in lights that react to music - it's a bit of a local attraction, and is marked on Google with a little tree as somewhere worth visiting to see lights (I'm just trying to make clear this is a lot of lights I'm talking about!) he said it costs him less than 50p a day to run from about 5 - 11pm - so the power usage on modern lights really is minimal.

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My house is full of LED lights and I've really not noticed a difference money-wise to be honest.

They cost pennies to run.

A pet peeve of mine is eco advice saying switch lights off. It’s completely out of date. Modern bulbs use so little.

Is it worse to switch them off then?

I think the OP means lights in city/town centres, not in people's houses. So, for example, Oxford Street.

I guess there's no problem with supply of electricity at the moment, so there's no shortage. If we do have rolling blackouts then heavy users will adapt their usage. But I don't think that's forecast to be needed while Christmas lights are still up.