A report examines whether we are entering an age of increasing power disruption
Major grid upgrades and new subsea cables between Scotland and England are being planned, to get offshore wind power to its customers, bringing billions of pounds in investment and jobs.A new report this week identified increasingly extreme weather, including droughts and storms, and the transition to new energy sources as twin sources of that growing problem.
That's according to a new report from the energy team at IHS Markit economic consultancy, identifying the causes as both extreme weather events and the lumpy transition to new forms of power. A winter storm that hit hard in Texas knocked out infrastructure and caused knock-on effects into other energy markets.
The UK has hardly any gas storage anyway, and there is pressure on Qatar and even as far away as Australia to help out Europe and the UK.Back with the electricity outages, Rama Zakaria of the global power and renewables division of IHS Markit comments: "While power supply challenges are not new and power supply disruptions have long plagued certain parts of the world, new challenges are emerging and exacerbating older ones.
The IHS Markit report said: "This is becoming increasingly the case with wind and solar resources typically located farther away from load centers.
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