From the ‘Ok, you politicians have created this mess, you sort it out dept’:
National Grid would “absolutely consider” relinquishing its role managing Britain’s electricity system to an independent body if policymakers decided it was the “right thing to do”, according to the company’s chief executive. John Pettigrew told the Financial Times he would be likely to sit down with the UK government and Ofgem, Britain’s energy regulator, next year to look again at how the country’s electricity system is operated.
Since its privatisation in 1990, National Grid has been responsible for matching electricity supply with demand and keeping Britain’s lights on. It faced questions over its management of the system after a blackout in August disrupted more than 1m homes and business in England and Wales, although the FTSE 100 company has maintained the incident was “extremely rare and unexpected”.
Mr Pettigrew said the system “operated as it was designed and it intended to” on August 9, when the blackout occurred.
via Tallbloke’s Talkshop
October 6, 2019 at 12:24PM
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