Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ on Nostr: ..a national political issue, engineers will have been pressured to go with expanding ...

..a national political issue, engineers will have been pressured to go with expanding the original substation for the area rather than create a new political problem to build another one on someone else's doorstep. And that all plays against the background of everone taking the reliability of the grid for granted. The engineers may warn otherwise but engineers get ignored when the political chips are down. And so Heathrow's power link grew ever more precarious till now.