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Originally Posted by Paul M

What makes you think they are ?

If a generator (or two) fail, its not a case of just flicking a switch and another kicks in - it takes time.

I can't be 100% sure of what National Grid have done - I imagine a number of generating sources are offline for summer maintenance. I thus suspect this has taken us close to capacity and voila widespread outage if two feeds go phut.

This shouldn't have happened with just two failures.