Neutral
Informational - no clear directional impact
Low Impact
Minor progress or informational
After a 17‑day outage in November 2013 caused by a failure in one phase of the Walney 2 onshore export cable, Ofgem ruled that the incident constituted an ‘exceptional event’ under the OFTO availability incentive regime. The regulator concluded that mechanical damage to the cable ducting and sheathing had occurred before Blue Transmission Walney 2 became the licensee, so the OFTO would not be penalised and was credited with an additional 70,955MWh of deemed export availability for that month.