Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 days agoWind power has cut 104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds
Wind power reduced UK energy costs by about £104.3bn between 2010 and 2023, delivering net savings despite green subsidies.
The April 28th outage, described as Europe's severest in 20 years, halted transport, cut internet and telephone communications and plunged cities into darkness across mainland Spain and Portugal. A report by a European expert panel last week concluded that "cascading overvoltages" caused the blackout, with the findings in line with a Spanish government report in June that also blamed overvoltage. Overvoltage occurs when there is too much electrical voltage in a network, overloading equipment.