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National Grid chief Steve Holliday: blackouts will be common in 7 years

Times; 22/12/2008

Britain could face regular blackouts within seven years if the Government does not intervene in the energy market to ensure that more power stations are built, the head of National Grid says today. In an interview with The Times, Steve Holliday, chief executive of the company that operates the power and gas transmission network, said that Britain was facing an acute shortage of generating capacity because a string of ageing nuclear and coal-fired plants were due to be retired from service.

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Websites: http://www.the-times.co.uk

Keywords: Energy

Countries: UK -

Subjects: Policy and Governance, Economics, business and commerce, Electricity generation, Electricity from nuclear fuel, Combined heat and power generation, Transmission, Gas transmission, Heat distribution, Transportation, Transmission and Distribution, Power stations, Coal fired power stations