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UK day-ahead power prices soared to more than a five-month high on Monday despite forecasts of high wind power generation, on market jitters due to an unexpected nuclear plant outage earlier in the day, sources said. At 12:36 am BST, a “failure” reduced the UK’s 504 MW Hinkley Point B nuclear unit 7 reactor 3 capacity to zero, operator EDF Energy said on its REMIT website. National Grid said the tripped unit is expected to return to the grid on August 7.
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