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Changes to UK interruptible gas contracts could cause supply outages in 2011

UK National Grid’s decision in January to tell large users on interruptible contracts to stop using gas is likely to be taken a stage further next time there is a cold snap, and could lead to the closure of thermal plants, warns a top official at the Major Energy Users’ Council (MEUC).

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"I am warning all utilities now that if they are depending on thermal power stations for heat in the long term, this might severely change in 2011," Eddie Proffitt, gas group chairman and northern members' manager at the utility consumer network and lobby group MEUC tells Energy Risk.

Under phases set out by National Grid, phase I is when National Grid asks all suppliers to ask the largest users

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