Ocean wind farm and Gas plant failures plunge UK into darkness

# Note : National Grid denies it was wind turbines but Hornsea ocean wind farm dropped off

Ocean wind farm and Gas plant failures at same time plunge UK into darkness

Energy watchdog Ofgem has demanded an urgent report from National Grid into how the failure happened

Source: Mirror

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-power-cut-how-just-18880425

Offshore Wind Knocks Out Large parts of England and Wales

Wales, UK. Power Outage attributed to Hornsea offshore wind farm seems to have disconnected.

Energy watchdog Ofgem warns it could take ‘enforcement action’ over the outage

"EnAppSys, an energy consultancy, said the blackout may have been caused by the unexpected shutdowns of the Hornsea offshore wind farm, which is owned by the Danish wind farm company Orsted, and the Little Barford gas-fired power plant, owned by German utility giant RWE.
National Grid data showed both of the generators dropped from the grid at around the same time. The twin outages caused a sudden loss of frequency of the electricity grid, to below 49Hz, which would have caused certain parts of the network to disconnect automatically, causing the power cuts."

Source: 2019 Guardian News & Media Limited

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/aug/09/power-cut-hits-london-and-south-east-england?fbclid=IwAR3Qctse5LEibvPoUKHW2THYGJ3PUSsb-YaaRkFFBBMaRlr7g_gAoSEdRkI