The head of Britain’s gas and electricity system operator has asked households to prepare for a blackout between 4pm and 7pm on weekdays during “really very cold” days in the UK. January and February if gas imports decrease.
National Grid Manager John Pettigrew said the blackouts would have to be in place during the “deepest evenings” in January and February if generators do not have enough gas to meet demand. demand, especially if there is cold weather.
His comments were made at the Financial Times Energy Transformation Summit on Monday.
Earlier this month, National Grid brought notified country that the possibility of winter gas shortages has increased and that a planned 3-hour power cut may be in place in some areas, in the “unlikely” case, supply Gas supply is short of demand.
This is the first time since the warning that there is an explicit discussion of how long the outage could take.
Due to Russia’s war in Ukraine and the sanctions on Russian gas imports, many European countries are facing gas shortages. A large amount of electricity is generated from gas, which puts a strain on the national electricity supply as demand increases in cold weather.
Britain gets 40% of its electricity from gas-fired power plants while gas heats the majority of homes.
Although Britain does not import gas from Russia, it does import electricity and gas from European countries that depend on Russian gas.
Various measures are planned to avoid power outages, including putting coal-fired power plants on standby instead of shutting down as previously planned and creating a flexible service needsallows consumers to be rewarded for not using electricity during peak demand periods.
