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An ‘urgent investigation’ has been ordered into Friday’s electricity outage at Heathrow Airport that stranded 200,000 passengers worldwide.
Energy secretary Ed Miliband said the British government is ‘determined to properly understand what happened and what lessons need to be learned’.
He said it would be carried out by NESO – the UK’s independent National Energy System Operator, and that the government was working alongside Ofgem.
The airport was shut down for most of the day on Friday after a fire cut off the power, forcing airlines to ground more than 1,300 flights.
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