U.K. Power System ‘Resilient’ to Outages, DECC Says
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The U.K. electricity system is resilient to blackouts and “ahead of the game” in facing cyber threats, the Department of Energy and Climate Change said after a third power station was hit by fire this year.
“Looking at the historical parallels, the system has steadily got more reliable,” Sarah Rhodes, head of energy resilience at the department, told the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee today. “There have been increases in resilience across the whole piece.”