Yeah but the apps might not. Some have a nasty habit of starting up and demanding an upgrade before going any further after a while. When you run the upgrade the installer can say unsupported iOS version so no more app.
The North Sea Link that is an undersea cable that the UK uses to import electricity from Norway. It terminates in at a site nearby so I would have though they would tap into that.
It could be that a lot of R&D engineering work is done in India which has is having huge issues with COVID (more than most other countries) and doesn't have the infrastructure to cope with huge amounts of people working from home.