The readiness of Britain's energy network to deal with freezing temperatures will be revealed later, when the National Grid reveals the gap between capacity and demand.
There are concerns over the whether the lights can stay on and blackouts can be avoided, following a series of power station closures and fires which have led to a squeeze on energy capacity.
The prospect of an electricity energy crunch has risen since the summer, when a key measure of risk, called Loss of Load Expectation (Lole) was forecast at 0.5 hours for the coming winter.
At the same time, the Grid announced "last resort" measures such as paying industrial users to reduce power usages and supplying reserves from power stations that would otherwise be closed or mothballed.
Since then the Lole risk measure has risen to 1.6 hours, factoring in the fires that have caused in the permanent shutdown of Ironbridge in Shropshire and the temporary closure of Ferrybridge in West Yorkshire.
A power station in Barking will also close, while a planned return to service for four EDF nuclear reactors at Heysham in Morecambe, Lancashire, and at Hartlepool, will see them return at only 75% capacity.
A fire put half of operations out of action at Didcot B power station in Oxfordshire - which has capacity to supply a million homes - last week.
The part of the site affected by the blaze is expected to return to around 50% service this week.
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