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  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
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Question reference: S6W-44227

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness and Nairn, Independent
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 12 March 2026
  • Current Status: Answered by Gillian Martin on 25 March 2026

To ask the Scottish Government, regarding any implications for its energy policy, what its response is to reports that Great Britain's electricity grid nearly experienced a blackout on 8 January 2025, during a period of low wind power generation and high demand due to a cold snap, which resulted in emergency balancing costs of up to £23 million, mostly paid to gas generators, and, in light of Great Britain's gas storage capacity reportedly being equivalent to less than two days' supply, what its position is on whether this increases the risk of (a) higher balancing costs and (b) brownouts and blackouts occurring.