UK power cut: Andrea Leadsom launches government investigation
The outage happened after problems at two power stations - the gas-fired station at Little Barford in Bedfordshire at 16:58 BST and then at Hornsea offshore wind farm two minutes later.
National Grid's director of operations Duncan Burt said he did not believe that a cyber-attack or unpredictable wind power generation was to blame. "We think that worked well; we think the safety protection systems across the industry, on generators and on the network, worked well to secure and keep the grid safe, to make sure that we preserved power to the vast proportion of the country," he said.The National Grid's operations director explains why nearly one million people lost power on Friday
Police were called to help travellers during the huge disruption on the railways on Friday, with delayed passengers stranded for hours.
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