Britain Heads For Power Cuts

E.ON chief: Preserve coal plants to keep lights on.

Ageing coal-fired power stations should be exempted from environmental regulations and kept open to stop the lights from going out, the chief executive of E.ON UK has urged the government.

Paul Golby told the Guardian that some of the coal and oil-fired plants due to close this decade because of European pollution regulations should remain operational and ready to come online during periods of peak demand such as those experienced in recent weeks. The Guardian revealed this month that almost 100 large power users had to switch to alternative sources when National Grid triggered clauses in their interruptible supply contracts.

And just because we are run by cretins who obey their cretin-masters in Brussels, we are going to suffer longer and more frequent power cuts in the very near future - and for a long time.

The green lobby are already whingeing, but even they must have noticed we are getting interrupted supplies. Not that they need worry, since no British government will have the guts or the intelligence to do anything about it.

Cold, Dark Days Ahead For UK

Power cuts forecast to hit UK in four years - Times Online

Britain faces a return to 1970s-style power blackouts and disruption to its electricity supplies within four years, the energy regulator warned yesterday.

Ofgem raised the spectre of a return to the three-day week for British industry as the country scrambles to renovate its crumbling power infrastructure ahead of new EU pollution rules that will force the closure of a quarter of UK power stations by 2015.

Alistair Buchanan, Ofgem’s chief executive, said: “There could be a potential shortfall in the period 2013-18 ... Life might be pretty cold.”

And this is no surprise:

"Mr Buchanan said that a failure to tackle the issue had left Britain more vulnerable to energy supply shocks than any other major country in Europe. Germany and France, he said, were “way ahead of us” in terms of investing in new, lower-carbon power supplies".

I bet France and Germany were prime movers in driving the EU's energy policy which is screwing the UK.

We occasionally get sudden, short outages and recently had a five-hour blackout when engineers were apparently 'fixing fuses' at a sub-station.

Still, if we're suffering power cuts it'll be more difficult for the EU to requisition our energy reserves 'in solidarity' with other EU states when the Ruskies cut them off.

How is it that we've ended up being governed by complete cretins?