Compensation from National Grid

[jmn]

I have a couple of friends who run businesses where I live.

Both businesses cannot operate at all without an electricity supply.

National Grid are undertaking planned works in their area. They will lose their supply for 6 hours on a Friday (their busiest day of the week) and also the following Tuesday, for a further 6 hours.

They were given 7 days notice of the works.

Is it possible to claim loss of earnings/profits in these circumstances?

[4Q]

Can't they hire a generator?

[jmn]

Thanks. I'll certainly mention it.

[netherfield]

Can't claim for a planned outage. Usually the electric people take less time than quoted

[Bob-iylho]

We have this senario quite often, usually a few hours.
We have a generator now for 240v and plan work around losing 3 phase.
As mentioned there is no claim for planned outages, and I'd agree it's usually shorter duration then planned.