{"id":1032,"date":"2014-11-03T06:28:07","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T11:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2014-11-03T06:28:07","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T11:28:07","slug":"bbc-news-national-grid-warns-of-lower-winter-power-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1032","title":{"rendered":"BBC News &#8211; National Grid warns of lower winter power capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-29794632\">BBC News &#8211; National Grid warns of lower winter power capacity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story_continues_1\" class=\"introduction\" style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; font-weight: bold; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 18px 0px;\">National Grid has warned that its capacity to supply electricity this winter will be at a seven-year low due to generator closures and breakdowns.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 18px 0px;\">Spare electricity capacity, which ran at about 5% over the winter months last year, would be nearer 4% this year, National Grid said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 18px 0px;\">Three years ago the margin was 17%.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 18px 0px;\">But National Grid said it has contingency plans in place to manage supply, including paying big firms to switch off on cold winter evenings.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #505050; font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;\"><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif;\">Dismissing fears of possible electricity blackouts, energy minister Matthew Hancock told the BBC: &#8220;We are absolutely clear we are taking the measures necessary in order to have secure energy supplies this winter.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News &#8211; National Grid warns of lower winter power capacity. National Grid has warned that its capacity to supply electricity this winter will be at a seven-year low due to generator closures and breakdowns. Spare electricity capacity, which ran at about 5% over the winter months last year, would be nearer 4% this year, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[254,255,550],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-electricity-blackouts","tag-electricity-capacity","tag-national-grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}