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National Grid

Volume 491: debated on Tuesday 21 April 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many reported breakdowns there were in the national grid network in each year for which figures are available. (263103)

The following table shows the number of unplanned outages of the GB electricity transmission system which led to customer disconnection between 1991-92 and 2007-08. The table also shows the amount of power in megawatt hours (MWh) lost in each of those years. The data are taken from National Grid's annual transmission performance reports.

Total MWh lost

Total number of events

1991-92

407

33

1992-93

1,210

52

1993-94

1,051

19

1994-95

518

34

1995-96

311

23

1996-97

215

33

1997-98

614

28

1998-99

859

33

1999-2000

587

23

2000-01

1,404

20

2001-02

699

29

2002-03

415

26

2003-04

1,329

27

2004-05

1,119

28

2005-06

1,939

28

2006-07

511

25

2007-08

1,675

49