Energy Supply: Weather
(asked on 7th February 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the level of security of supply of electricity for winter 2019; and whether he is taking steps to improve that level of security.
This question was answered on 14th February 2019
National Grid’s Winter Outlook for 2018/19 published in November 2018 showed that there was an electricity margin of over 11% entering this winter, which is sufficient to meet the statutory Reliability Standard.