National Grid had experienced three blackout “near-misses” in as many months before Friday’s major outage left almost a million homes in the dark and forced trains to a standstill around the UK.
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I think UK may still manage with the blackout than lack of beer(alcohol) in the pubs or supermarkets!
Good, and I hope we have a lot more obverse the n3xtbfew months. It’s the only way MPs will start taking our power generation seriously and stop pandering to the Eco mob.
It is no surprise, there is clearly not enough baseload capacity available, largely because of successive governments failure to implement a credible energy policy.
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i was sitting and the next thing, i had a blackout
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