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The UK’s power grid operator has issued a notice to the market to ask it to generate more back-up power after a ‘system margin shortfall’ caused by a lack of wind power.
The UK grid operator, the National Energy System Operator (NESO) warned electricity supplies may be tight on Monday morning as a result of low wind generation but it stressed that this is ‘not a warning of power cuts’ and that there is ‘no risk to customer electricity supplies.
NESO said it expects a shortfall of about 1.4 gigawatts during Monday morning’s peak period on November 9 and has asked the market to provide additional power generation as the margin tightens.
NESO said it was a “precautionary measure” to ensure there is headroom in the system to meet demand for electricity.
On Sunday night, it issued the electricity margin notice, which sends a message to the market that the operator would like more of a cushion between power demand and supply for a limited period.
This allows production to rise to increase capacity in the grid.
Neso said it was expecting a system margin shortfall of 1,388 megawatts from 6am to 11am on Monday.
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