UK Has Enough Electricity for Winter Despite Energy Market Turmoil

The UK will have sufficient electricity supply this winter despite the Strait of Hormuz crisis, NESO, the country’s grid operator, said today. “While we will continue to monitor global energy markets, households and businesses can be confident that electricity supplies remain secure,” NESO’s head of whole energy system resilience, Deborah Petterson, said in a statement, as quoted by Reuters. The UK has, in recent years, become increasingly dependent on imported oil and gas as several successive governments prioritized a…