I've been looking into this for a few weeks now and the timing does seem suspicious when you lay it all out on a spreadsheet. I actually went back through the publicly available OFGEM reports and cross-referenced them with the National Audit Office schedules - there's definitely some overlap that's hard to dismiss as pure coincidence.
What I'm struggling to work out though is the mechanism. Like, who would actually have the authority to trigger a grid-level event deliberately? Are we talking NESO (National Energy System Operator), private contractors, or something further up the chain?
A few questions for anyone who's dug deeper into this:
Has anyone mapped the specific blackout zones against parliamentary constituency boundaries? I'm wondering if certain areas are consistently affected, Are the audits being delayed because of the blackouts, or are they quietly restructured afterwards?, Does this pattern hold in other countries, or is it predominantly a UK phenomenon?
Living up here in Pendle I'm fairly used to infrastructure being the last priority, so nothing would honestly surprise me. But I want to make sure I'm not just seeing patterns where there aren't any before I go further down this rabbit hole.
Has anyone got solid primary source documentation rather than just secondhand forum posts? I'd rather build this on actual evidence than speculation. Would be good to compare notes properly.
