Energy
UK Grid CEO Calls Heathrow Outage an Isolated, Rare Event
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The head of the UK’s National Grid Plc said the network doesn’t have reliability issues and recent major outages were rare, isolated incidents.
A power failure knocked out large parts of the London Underground on Monday, just weeks after a fire at a substation near Heathrow shut Europe’s busiest airport. The disruption raised questions about the robustness of the nation’s energy infrastructure.