Blackout raises questions about resilience of the country’s power system
The UK’s biggest power cut in more than a decade has set alarm bells ringing – and the peal is being heard far beyond the immediate causes of the episode.
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Energy regulator opens probe into UK blackout
The U.K.’s energy markets regulator said it’ll probe whether grid operators or power generators breached license conditions during the Aug. 9 blackout that saw more than one million British households lose power.
London finds no easy answers after once-in-a-decade blackout
When two U.K. power plants shut down almost simultaneously in London’s first major blackout for a decade, it triggered a storm of questions about how to avoid another failure.
Ukraine power blackout caused by cyber attack
A power blackout in Ukraine's capital was caused by a cyber attack, investigators have warned.