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  2. Category:Power outages in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Category for power cuts in the UK, and its National Grid (Northern Ireland is entirely separate to this, with its electricity grid run by Northern Ireland Electricity and developed by System Operator for Northern Ireland

  3. Electricity in Great Britain - Wikipedia

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    From the mid-1990s renewable energy began to contribute to the electricity generated in the United Kingdom, adding to a small hydroelectricity generating capacity. Renewable energy sources provided for 11.3% of the electricity generated in the United Kingdom in 2012, [51] reaching 41.3 TWh of electricity generated. As of 2nd quarter 2017 ...

  4. Power dispute of 1964 - Wikipedia

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    The power dispute of 1964 was an industrial action by electric power workers in the United Kingdom that raised fears of power cuts which were ultimately averted through negotiation with the employers. Unions representing 128,000 manual workers demanded: Reduction in working time from a 42- to 40-hour week;

  5. Three-Day Week - Wikipedia

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    In the 1970s, most of the UK's electricity was produced by coal-burning power stations. [8] To reduce electricity consumption, and thus conserve coal stocks, the Conservative Prime Minister, Edward Heath, announced a number of measures under the Fuel and Electricity (Control) Act 1973 (c. 67) on 13 December 1973, including the 'Three-Day Work Order', the Electricity (Industrial and Commercial ...

  6. Power outage - Wikipedia

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    Power outages are categorized into three different phenomena, relating to the duration and effect of the outage: A transient fault is a loss of power typically caused by a fault on a power line, e.g. a short circuit or flashover. Power is automatically restored once the fault is cleared. A brownout is a drop in voltage in an electrical power ...

  7. 2003 London blackout - Wikipedia

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    The 2003 London blackout was a serious power outage that affected parts of south London and north-west Kent in the evening of 28 August 2003. It was caused by a series of faults at National Grid transmission substations, which supplied the distribution network operator in the area, EDF Energy (now UK Power Networks).

  8. Egypt cuts power to ease loads during heatwave - cabinet - AOL

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    Egypt will face regular power cuts until the middle of next week as the government limits consumption of gas during a heatwave, the cabinet said on Wednesday. Residents have reported power cuts in ...

  9. Rolling blackout - Wikipedia

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    A room during load shedding at night in West Bengal, India. A rolling blackout, also referred to as rota or rotational load shedding, rota disconnection, feeder rotation, or a rotating outage, is an intentionally engineered electrical power shutdown in which electricity delivery is stopped for non-overlapping periods of time over different parts of the distribution region.