Chief of the National Network says

The National Grid Chief Executive Director has insisted that the electricity transfer network remains capable of feeding enough power in the hires throughout the airport’s closure last week when the airline’s anger over the decision to close almost 24 hours.

In his first comments ever since Fire On Thursday night, John Petigre told The Financial Times that the “unprecedented” flame knocked out the substation of the Northern Haida, two more who served the hires, worked throughout the incident.

“From the substation there is not enough potential,” he said. “Each substation can provide sufficient capacity for hits individually.”

Shutters Closed almost all Friday after the fire substation, which causes violations, which are expected to cost airline tens of millions of pounds. More than 1300 flights were canceled, affected by hundreds of thousands of passengers.

The airport says that although it is able to perform full operations with only two substations, it had to “renovate” its internal electrical networks to safely make the switch.

Chief Executive Director of Hitrov, Thomas Waldby, said last weekend that the airport was also to safely restart thousands of its systems – from baggage belts to air bridges.

He seems to have translated a certain guilt into the energy industry when he told the BBC that the hires would evaluate whether it needs “a different level of stability when we cannot believe that the network works the way it should.”

But Petigrey said: “Two substations have always been available for distribution companies and hits to accept power.” He added that this was a “question to hire” as to why she took the action he did.

“The substation loss is a unique event – but there were two more available,” he said. “So, this is a level of stability.”

At the end of Sunday, the Hitrov press -secretary said: “As the head of the national network John Pettygrey noted, he never saw such a transformer’s failure in the field. His opinion confirmed that it was an unprecedented incident, and that Hitrov could not work uninterrupted.”

The national network owns and manages the UK high voltage transfer network, including the substation around the hires, where electricity is fed on the lower voltage distribution network and then to the houses and business. SSEN has a distribution network in the area.

When they started restoring their activities over the weekend, the airlines began to question the duration of the shutdown, and whether some terminals could be opened faster.

One senior executive director said the airline was “pushing and pushing” Hitrov to reopen.

“It is unclear why Hitrov decided to close the airport all the day so early. It is clear that flights to terminal 5 could be included in the early Friday afternoon,” they said.

Another senior executive director said that “many” airlines expected the airport to open faster, although they acknowledged that his leadership had faced “complex” decisions.

The third agreed with the questions whether all the terminals should be closed for so long.

On Sunday night, the Hitrov press -secretary said: “According to our airline partners, our goal was re -opened as soon as it is safe and almost after the fire. We were able to focus on managing more than 2500 flights over the weekend.”

Waldby said Hitrov opened again as soon as possible, and this, and the airport collided with the “main” and “unprecedented” event.

Ministers have ordered the investigation In the incident, and on Sunday Chancellor Rachel Riviz said Third take -off -postcard Hitches.

It is expected that the shutdown will cost the airline about £ 60 million to £ 70 million, according to Andrew Light, consultant and former senior head of the British Airways IAG.

Airlines should not pay direct compensation to customers, but should cover hotels and other violation costs. Hitrov said he was not responsible for the cost of airlines.

Nigel Wieck, CEO of Hethrow AOC, who is using the airline using the airport, said: “We are already paying for the services in Hitches, we also cannot pay where there is no resilience and failure of this nature, whether it will be hires or their suppliers.”

Petigrah said the fire at the Northern Haida substation – which the firefighters stated that he had installed 25,000 liters of cooling oil – was so February that he damaged all three transformers in place, including one that is for backup and away from the other.

He added that the cause of the fire was not yet known because it was still too hot for full trial, and the participation of a third party is still not excluded. Police on combating terrorism was investigating, but stated that there were no signs of wrong game.

“I can’t remember how the transformer that has fallen in the industry for 30 years,” Petrigra said.

Asked why the site built in the 1960s was designed in such a way that all three transformers were knocked out by one fire, it said: “You must build a substation in an affordable space, and obviously you do your best to soften the risks.

“But it’s clear that I think the investigation will consider a little further.”

The fire on the substation arises during the concern the risk of damage to the UK’s critical national infrastructure, given the war against Ukraine.

On Friday, FT reported that the infrastructure owners in November called for additional vigilant reliable threats coming from Russia.

Asked how he was concerned about the threat from Russia, Pettygrey said: “We always focus on the safety of our assets. And I’m not going to enter into detail.”

There is also increased control over electrical networks, usually given the deviation from fossil fuels, which includes greater based on the equipment that works on wind and sun farm electricity.

“This year alone, we invest £ 10 billion into the network, added Pettigrew.

“So, I am absolutely sure and sure we put the funds in the network for safety resistance.”