This year's 8th January was a still, cold day in the UK, and the nation's electricity system came uncomfortably close to blackouts.
Quite how close is disputed: very close, according to one expert observer who plots the complexities of the generation of juice to your mains socket. Not really close at all, according to the government body in charge of keeping the lights on.
Maintaining constant electricity requires a complex system of balancing suppliers. Keeping track of the cornucopia of information published every day is what turns David Turver on. Much of this is provided by the National Energy System Operator (NESO), which has insisted there was no real problem on 8th January 2025.
Mr Turver disagrees. There was almost no wind – something that happens uncomfortably frequently during cold…
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The Oldie (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2025