Why an age of energy rationing is looming over Britain Paul Homewood

We all knew it was going to happen, but the green blob turned a blind eye:

But in the nearer term, some fear the breakneck pace of change could stretch the grid to the limit. 

• In September, the country’s last coal-fired power station, at Ratcliffe-on-Soar, Nottinghamshire, closed.
• As Britain’s reactor fleet shrivels, the amount of nuclear capacity will fall from six gigawatts (GW) today to just 1.2 GW by 2028 or soon after.

Along with rising demand from power-hungry data centres and technologies of the future, it will make it even harder to keep the lights on when wind and solar generation is low...