You couldn't make it up

[JBR]

In the UK it will be difficult to implement as not everyone has a smart meter so we'll have to bump along with power cuts for everyone.

 So, in a time of an electricity generation crisis, Joe Bloggs, who's using 300 watts of electricity for his lights & boiler, will have his supply cut off, due to his neighbour using 20 kilowatts to charge a couple of EVs.

This could equally be us, as our next-door neighbours have a charging point on their front drive.

No problem, though.  We have a wood burner, an oil lamp and a paraffin lamp on standby.
A bit of a drawback with no Classic Coronation Street, though.