For its part, the North American Reliability Corporation (NERC), who oversees power market reliability, issued a December report highlighting that gas and power markets need to be more synchronized to effectively enable reliability in light of higher dependence on natural gas generation.

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The new magazine is called Brill's Content, and it exists to report on the reliability of other media.

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The Commission's systems are "out of control" with "obvious risks as regards reliability", the paper quotes the report as saying, and says the commission "has been warned about them but to date has not taken any action".

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The report also says passenger satisfaction with punctuality and reliability has risen 2% to 83%, a level only achieved once before, in autumn 2009.

BBC: UK