Extreme warmth poses Spanish-style blackout risk to UK electric grid

Rising summer season temperatures pose a blackout risk to the United Kingdom’s electric grid, with an important apparatus corresponding to transformers and cabling ill-equipped to deal with the local weather of the long run. In a worst-case state of affairs, excessive warmth may just motive more than one apparatus screw ups around the nation, triggering well-liked energy outages very similar to the ones observed closing month in Spain and Portugal.

The UK’s Met Office predicts temperatures of 40°C (104°F) or extra might be recorded within the nation each and every 3 to 4 years by means of the tip of the century until pressing motion is taken globally to…