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13 September 2012
When the lights went out across swathes of the US, Canada and Italy, people asked whether the UK was also vulnerable to widespread blackouts. Scott Dendy explains what regulators, users and suppliers are doing to prevent them
Things are changing in the power market. After a couple of years of falling prices, the wholesale market is firming, and quickly. This shift is largely in response to fears of a shortage of generating capacity as peak demand this winter is forecast to come close to the maximum output of the UK’s power stations. The recent blackouts in London and Birmingham have helped...