Official data shows the UK increased electricity imports from the Netherlands, Belgium and – to a lesser extent – Ireland during the blackout it suffered on 9 August. The outage lasted less than one hour but affected almost 1 million customers and brought rail and air transport to a standstill in some places.
The blackout occurred after RWE’s 727 MW Little Barford gas-fired power plant and Ørsted’s 800 MW Hornsea offshore wind farm in the North Sea shut down almost...
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