Lightning strike, power plant trips led to Aug. 9 outage: Britain's National Grid
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A lightning strike on a transmission circuit and power plant trips on Aug. 9 led to 1.1 million homes in Britain suffering a power outage, National Grid informed Britain’s energy regulator in its final report on Tuesday.