Blackout Britain: Festive electricity cuts and power crisis predicted for the New Year

‘Energy bills will have to go up if Britain is to avoid crippling winter blackouts caused by a power crisis looming over the coming year.
The National Grid is failing to meet demand as “emergency power deals have become the norm,” according to a new report by a cross-party parliamentary group chaired by Grant Shapps.
Coal power station closures and the building of renewable energy plants will leave the country struggling to generate the required power supplies to feed British infrastructure and homes.
The British Infrastructure Group (BIG) believes the government’s attempt to meet certain climate change targets led to a cut back in capacity margins and extravagant price increases. The “interventionist energy policy,” Shapps believes, has left electricity supplies “dangerously small.”’
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