Here come the powercuts

I know I have blogged about the coming powercuts before and made some scary predictions, but now Ofgen have predicted that: "There could be a potential shortfall in the period 2013-18 ... Life might be pretty cold."

In the case of an unusually harsh winter Britain could be forced to switch off power supplies to large factories to conserve dwindling electricity supplies for households.
This is the fault of a Labour government that has spent 12 years hiding from this issue: ignoring the need for more nuclear power stations for fear of upsetting the CND supporting wing of the party, ignoring the need for reliable cheap coal fired power stations for fear of upsetting the eco-loon wing of the party. The UK is now more vulnerable to energy supply shocks than any other major country in Europe. Whilst Germany and France have already invested in new lower-carbon power supplies, the UK will have to massively reduce demand in order to avoid power cuts.

Have you purchased your generators yet?