Worst of all, UK Energy Secretary Ed Miliband is either in denial or is being intentionally deceptive.

Britain risks electricity rationing by the next general election unless its fleet of ageing gas-fired power stations is urgently upgraded, a new report has warned.

More than a dozen of Britain’s gas-fired power stations are so old that they may not last until the end of the decade and key parts required to upgrade them take years to arrive on order, energy consultancy Watt-Logic said.

It called on Ed Miliband, the Energy Secretary, to face up to the threat amid growing concern over UK power supplies, which still rely largely on gas despite the expansion of renewables.

There have been warnings issued about this for years. But still NESO and DESNZ continue to deny the obvious and gaslight the public.

Responding to the report, a Neso spokesman said: “Great Britain has one of the most secure energy systems in the world… our engineers are confident Britain’s grid will continue to operate safely and securely as more renewables connect to the network in the years ahead.”

A spokesperson for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero said: “The National Energy System Operator,  has been clear the faster we decarbonise, the more secure we are. 

“Gas will continue to play a key role in our energy system as we transition to clean, more secure, homegrown energy. 

“That’s why we are also delivering the biggest upgrade to Great Britain’s electricity network in decades to deliver clean power by 2030 and beyond.”

Indeed, Great Britain once possessed one of the world’s most secure energy systems, but that’s clearly no longer true today. Regarding the idea that expanding renewables would improve our security, NESO recognizes this as false.

It was NESO itself that cautioned in its 2024 Clean Power 2030 report that would still require a complete lineup of gas-fired power plants for years ahead. They’re well aware that wind and solar alone can’t deliver reliable, round-the-clock energy, even when bolstered by nuclear, biomass, and imported supplies.

Wind and solar generation capacity could be tripled, yet three times zero is still zero. Miliband understands that the genuine crises will only emerge after the upcoming election, so he’ll push to devastate the nation in the meantime, safe in the knowledge that he won’t bear the repercussions.