The UK is at much greater risk of electricity blackouts than indicated in National Grid’s Winter Outlook, energy trading house Hartree Solutions said Oct. 22. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now The system operator’s Oct. 15 outlook acknowledged that generation margins were lower this year than last, but that they remained well above loss-of-load risk targets set by the government. Should the UK experience periods of tightness, “we would expect GB prices to escalate and interconnectors to import,” National Grid said. Reliance on imports from continental Europe to meet demand “shouldn’t be taken for granted,” Hartree said, with market spreads “at times implying a 99.7% risk of blackouts.” While historic flows show the UK typically imports during […]