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Subject Britain was forced to get its electricity from Belgium during heatwave to stop blackout in London and paid 5,000% the typical price!!

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Britain paid the highest price on record for electricity in London last week as the capital narrowly avoided a power blackout.

The National Grid’s Electricity System Operator (ESO) was [b]forced to pay £9,724.54 per megawatt hour[/b] to Belgium, [b]more than 5,000% the typical price[/b] on Wednesday.

Otherwise controllers would have had to disconnect homes, forcing a blackout in south-east London, Bloomberg reported.

[b]The average price paid for a megawatt hour of electricity so far this year is £178.[/b]

A sequence of issues around the hottest UK days on record led to extreme constraints in the power system and hiked up demand.

Increased demand for energy across Europe combined with a bottleneck in the grid forced the ESO to buy electricity from Belgium at the highest price Britain has ever paid to keep power flowing.

While the [b]amount bought[/b] at the record amount was minimal - reportedly [b][u]enough to supply eight houses for a year [/u][/b]- it has exposed the UK’s reliance on importing electricity from interconnectors overseas, particularly France, Belgium and the Netherlands.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11047167/UK-forced-electricity-Belgium-heatwave-stop-blackout-paid-5-000-MORE.html

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Original Message Britain paid the highest price on record for electricity in London last week as the capital narrowly avoided a power blackout.

The National Grid’s Electricity System Operator (ESO) was forced to pay £9,724.54 per megawatt hour to Belgium, more than 5,000% the typical price on Wednesday.

Otherwise controllers would have had to disconnect homes, forcing a blackout in south-east London, Bloomberg reported.

The average price paid for a megawatt hour of electricity so far this year is £178.

A sequence of issues around the hottest UK days on record led to extreme constraints in the power system and hiked up demand.

Increased demand for energy across Europe combined with a bottleneck in the grid forced the ESO to buy electricity from Belgium at the highest price Britain has ever paid to keep power flowing.

While the amount bought at the record amount was minimal - reportedly enough to supply eight houses for a year - it has exposed the UK’s reliance on importing electricity from interconnectors overseas, particularly France, Belgium and the Netherlands.

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