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The Energy Networks Association (ENA) has provided information on how customers can cope and understand the increasingly likely planned national power cuts set to be introduced over the winter period.

​Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) is to use near real-time data from smart meters to respond to power interruptions.

In the first in a new series of podcasts, Current± editor Liam Stoker and Energy Storage News editor Andy Colthorpe discuss the headlines, causes and remedies to recent blackouts in the UK, and take a look at what's happening to Elon Musk's Tesla.

A lightning strike that caused two separate losses of generation – described by National Grid ESO as an “extremely rare and unexpected event” – has been revealed as the cause behind Britain’s power cut on 9 August 2019.

Distribution network operators and the decisions they made to disconnect end users will be investigated as part of an inquiry into last week’s blackout, the government has confirmed.

Last week’s UK black out was unlikely to have been the result of either high renewable generation or a cyber attack, National Grid chief exec John Pettigrew has said.

The government is to launch a formal investigation into last week’s power cut which left nearly 1 million customers without power.