No Backup Plan: UK to Shut Remaining Reserve Coal Power Plants Before Winter
Despite the prospect of another winter energy crisis, the UK’s final reserve coal-fired power plants are to shortly go dark forever.
Despite the prospect of another winter energy crisis, the UK’s final reserve coal-fired power plants are to shortly go dark forever.
More than a million UK households will be offered money for them to cut their electricity use between 5pm and 6pm on Monday.
The UK is calm, cloudy, and cold, leaving the National Grid bringing three coal power plants back online to cover the lack of renewables.
Brexit champion Nigel Farage has slammed to green-obsessed “idiots” running the country as the National Grid warms up two coal-fired reserve power plants in case of shortages.
Britain’s National Grid has announced it is firing up two coal-fired reserve power plants as a winter snap and lack of wind leave the country facing blackouts amid a general energy crisis.
Medium and large companies have reportedly been scrambling to purchase electricity generators amid fears that the country could see parts of its national grid collapse.
Potential blackouts this winter in Britain have become more likely with repairs to a crucial underwater cable from France being delayed.
The head of the national electricity grid in France has warned that power cuts are still likely during the winter months.
The UK government has reportedly begun “wargaming” scenarios in which energy blackouts could last up to one week amid gas shortages.
The BBC has reportedly crafted secret scripts to be read out in the event that the energy crisis results in blackouts during the winter.
Britons face regular, rolling blackouts in order to preserve the overall integrity of the gas and electricity network this winter.
There is a “significant risk” of gas shortages that would see gas-powered power plants go offline this winter, the UK energy regulator warned.
Home heating and electricity prices are expected to skyrocket in homes across the U.S. northeast this winter, according to National Grid.
Officials from the UK’s National Grid have sworn to the public that the country will avoid blackouts this winter, though they have admitted that prices will end up being “very high”.
In the Build Back Better effort to radically transform the UK’s energy system, millions of Britons will be paid to ration their energy usage.
Britain’s prospects under Boris Johnson are obviously much, much better than they would have been under Jeremy Corbyn. But there’s one area especially, I fear, where this Conservative administration is going to come seriously unstuck.
The National Grid has released its preliminary report into the power cut which caused massive disruption across the UK on August 9th, affecting over a million people and creating chaos in rail and road services.
Boris Johnson’s government is shuffling towards a gigantic cliff edge which has nothing to do with Brexit. The looming disaster can be summed up in one word: renewables.