What happens when there is no power?
More than a million people across Spain and Portugal were left without electricity after disruption to supplies from a high voltage interconnector in France. The incident occurred between 4:30 pm and 5 pm local time on Saturday 24 July. Red Eléctrica de España, which operates the electricity network in Spain, blamed a seaplane damaging the … Read More “Interconnector Failure In France Causes Outages Across Iberian Peninsula” »
October 1987 saw the biggest storm to hit southern parts of the UK in almost 300 years kill 18 people, cause billions of pounds of damage and leave hundreds of thousands of homes without power.
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