Wednesday, July 20, the day following the UK’s hottest day on recordsome areas of London narrowly escaped the blackout, in particular thanks to the Nemo Link submarine cable connected to Belgium, according to a Bloomberg news agency columnist and energy expert. The British, however, had to pay 9,724.54 pounds (equivalent to around 11,424.9 euros) per megawatt hour to have access to this energy, or around 5,000% more than in normal times, this is a record.
Concretely, the growing demand for electricity has come up once morest a bottleneck on the British electricity network, threatening to deprive the eastern parts of the British capital of electricity.
London had to import electricity between 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m.
“If Belgium had not come to the rescue, the grid operator would have had to manage demand and disconnect homes“said a spokesperson for the UK network.
Elia to the rescue
This Nemo Link submarine cable is owned by Elia, the Belgian network operator, and its British counterpart National Grid. Contacted by us, Elia confirms having sent the equivalent of the consumption of a city of approximately one million inhabitants, for one hour, last Wednesday.
