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A major fire has forced the shutdown of one of Britain’s most important power cables importing electricity from France as the UK faces an electricity supply crunch and record high market prices.
National Grid was forced to evacuate staff from the site of the IFA high-voltage power cable, which brings electricity from France to a converter station in Kent, where 12 fire engines attended the blaze in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
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