UK energy supplies should be sufficient this winter, the firm says, but power cuts are a possibility.
Blackouts would be a last resort this winter if energy supplies run low, National Grid has told the BBC.
Mr Pettigrew said the company was working on a number of scenarios to protect the country against any energy supply shortfall from Europe. Last month, National Grid had warned that households could lose power for up to three hours at a time this winter if gas supplies run extremely low, but had added it was an "unlikely" scenario.Mr Pettigrew told the BBC it would be "common sense" for the government to launch a public information campaign on reducing energy use this winter - a move that ministers have so far avoided.
Mr Pettigrew said that for the UK to hit government targets of a 400% increase in offshore wind power by 2030, big changes in planning and regulation would be required to speedily build the hundreds of miles of new cables and overhead pylons needed onshore to get the energy from the east coast of the UK, where most will be produced, to the south of England where most of it is used.
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