UNRELIABLE POWER SYSTEMS
January 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHERE is a significant risk that Europe's summer of blackouts could be repeated after 2008, unless effective investments are made in power generation and distribution plant, the Union for the Co-ordination of Transmission of Electricity (UCTE), has warned. In a report, the European grid operators' organisation said that despite recent power cuts, the reliability of Europe's electricity systems "should remain at an acceptable level" until 2006, "due to expected new generating capacity and some development in national and international transmission ...
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