Summary
OVER the next few years, many power stations will reach the end of their lives, or have to shut because of EU law. Unfortunately, the Government has failed to ensure that replacements will be available in time, leaving an energy gap.
The small print of Whitehall documents reveal that ministers have pencilled in power cuts of 3,000 Megawatt hours per year by 2017 - which means 670,000 people going without electricity for a day - equivalent to the whole population of Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire. In practice, the blackouts are most likely to strike at peak times - in the early evening during the winter months - hitting many people for periods when the need for electricity is greatest. The expected gap could even mean a simultaneous hour-long power cut for 16 million people on a winter evening.See the full content of this document
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