Energy shortages

[NorthernRaider]

Further to our recent chats about energy supplies for the nation as a whole (or London as a hole) and our efforts to insulate ourselves from planned energy shortfalls by 2018 onwards by going offgrid.

The Talks with French energy company EDF and German energy company EON to build new nuclear power stations across the UK are running into difficulties, (actually IIRC Eon has withdrawn from the scheme setting things back a bit).

What must be remembered that whilst they are still only discussing building new plants time rolls on and the obsolete coal stations must still close at the end of this year, this is going to leave us desperately critical in our energy capacity. As it was this winter it was one of the obsolete coal stations that managed to fill a gap supplying power for 1.3 million people during the recent cold snap, this old station wont be there next winter.

So now the talks with EDF are faltering and I fear they will only be resolved by us Brits giving the French bloody billions of pounds extra to stay in the project which will drive up energy bills even higher.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsb...weeks.html