October 9, 2022 17:24
Nadim al-Zahawi, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, said the British government was preparing for the possibility of a power outage, but it was a “very unlikely scenario”.
“The right thing is that we plan for every scenario,” Zahawi was quoted by Britain’s PA Media as saying, before ruling out a £14m campaign to guide citizens on how to conserve energy.
The National Electricity Grid System, which is responsible for Britain’s power grid, has said that individuals and businesses may face scheduled outages for three hours to ensure the grid does not collapse.
But she described this as an “unlikely” scenario, which will happen if power plants cannot get enough gas to run.
Britain experienced planned blackouts in the 1970s due to miners’ strikes and the oil crisis.
Major outages also occurred during storms, including in 1987, when 1.5 million people experienced darkness.
“We have the second largest LNG processing infrastructure in Europe,” Al-Zahawi said in an interview with Scani News, today.
“Half of our gas we produce here, we want to increase that – this year we have increased production by 26 percent. We have links with our neighbors.”
Source: agencies
