An article in The Grauniad, and reprinted elsewhere, on the BBCs plans for blackouts this winter. It does contain a bit of realism in it though which can be regarded as mildly reassuring
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"Ministers have been at pains to reassure businesses and householders that blackouts are unlikely. However, National Grid, which oversees electricity supplies in Great Britain, has issued a rare warning that power supplies could be at risk. The organisation said that in a worst-case scenario it could order planned blackouts for up to three hours a day if Russia cuts off all gas supplies to Europe.
On Monday, National Grid’s chief executive, John Pettigrew, went further and said that if everything that could possibly go wrong did go wrong, there could be rolling blackouts between 4pm and 7pm on “really, really cold” days in January and February, when wind speeds are too low to power turbines."
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/ ... -blackouts
On a slight tangent - for those that know about such things - I wonder if wind turbine arrays have the capability to perform their own black start ? They'd need power to release the brakes and control the blades and do other things - I wonder if their transformer sites have the necessary reserve power facilities ?
I knows cos I have been there many times 
