UK households will face escalating electricity bills or peak-time power cuts by 2015, according to John Constable, director of policy and research at the Renewable Energy Foundation. Writing in the Guardian newspaper recently, Constable warned that the UK faces a significant shortage in electric generation capacity within six years and that price hikes or power cuts are likely.
Constable wrote: 'The government has underestimated the impact of the regulations and has failed to recognise that the LCPD would probably require the closure of the bulk of the UK's coal generation fleet by 2016.' Constable also described the UK's 'extreme dependence' on imported gas as 'reckless' and warned that ministers have failed to understand that the security of supply contribution from renewables, even if built, would be modest.
He added: 'A modern, diversified power fleet must consist of nuclear plants, high-efficiency and therefore cleaner coal-fired power stations, including gasifiers predesigned to be ready to capture CO2 for the purpose of enhanced oil (and gas) recovery in the North Sea.
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