Leadsom gets top job at BEIS
Leadsom succeeds Greg Clark, who had held the position for three years, but was relieved of his duties by new Prime Minister Boris Johnson earlier this evening.
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Leadsom sets out scope of investigation into power cuts
The Energy Emergencies Executive Committee will establish what happened to cause the outage and if correct procedures were followed. It will also consider whether improvements are needed to prevent future power cuts and better respond if they do occur, including minimising impacts on people and essential services.
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Government launches investigation into major power outage
Andrea Leadsom, Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), has commissioned the Energy Emergencies Executive Committee to consider the incident which effected around one million customers and was caused when two major generators disconnected from the transmission system, causing frequency to drop to less than 49 hertz.
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