The future of the UK under 'green power'?

The Telegraph report that:

'when the inhabitants of the remote Scottish island of Eigg put their faith in the wind and rain to provide all their electricity they did not reckon for one thing – mild weather.

Now the 95 residents are being asked not to use kettles, toasters or other kitchen appliances after uncharacteristically mild weather caused a critical shortage of power.

Other household equipment such as washing machines are to be used only outside times of “peak” demand for the island’s 45 homes and 20 businesses.

Weeks of what passes for heatwave conditions in the Inner Hebrides have caused water levels on the island’s three main burns to drop uncharacteristically low, cutting off the island’s hydroelectricity supply.

The normally powerful Atlantic gusts in the tiny island south of Skye have also reduced to a pleasant breeze leaving the island’s wind turbines idle for hours on end.

As a result, the community owned power company has placed the island on “red alert” and issued notices effectively rationing electricity.

It has had to revert to using old-fashioned diesel power to run a backup generator to keep the lights on.

The shortages come only months after Eigg’s innovative renewable power grid won a share of a £1 million first prize in a nationwide competition to become model on how to tackle climate change. '

In a rational world it is stories like this that would make the proponents of 'green power' think again, but this is not a rational world and the environmentalists, greens and their supporters and evangelisers in the BBC will continue to push their agenda all the harder.

Of course I can find no mention of this news on the BBC's green propaganda page although there is this article buried on the highlands and islands news page.

Amusingly this page has one link on it to James Delingpole's blog, specifically a piece entitled "Ha ha ha ha ha!"

Thanks to Biased BBC for the spot.