RE: Heathrow and Hayes Outage22 Mar 2025 20:27
Well National Grid may well get a kicking on Monday behind the woodsheds regarding the SP. Delayed open 30p down might be the result. How does the company monitor its sub stations, how are they security monitored, how are critical systems on-site monitored such as coolant temperatures, are systems vulnerable to cyber manipulations and malfunctions. I suspect someone has failed to either anticipate a risk or they failed to monitor the risk with on-going systems to detect issues.
They have Sunday to produce an RNS and put the best defence they can on the situation.
The only good news is that NG can develop systems to prevent recurrence and the damage was limited to one day plus getting back to normal costs. I dare say NG have insurance as a private company. The next renewal is going to be expensive if that is so and they may have to take some of the costs as a hit.
Tony