Energy Policy

To more specialist areas of media this will not be news. But finally this week the risk of our enforced European energy policy were spelled out in harsh terms. The changes of power outage as we move to renewables and failing to provide enough backup power plants to replace older coal generators has gone from 1 in 3300 years to 1 in 12 years.

We've dragged our feet on commissioning new nuclear power is the one factor I can think of that has had some media coverage.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19842401

There is one columnist I can think of, Christopher Booker who has been charting this sleep walking into energy shortages for a few years. He has some extreme views on climate change - which are sometimes hard to accept. But on energy policy I always feel he is correct.