How do we stop renewables failing us again?

In recent weeks the UK government under new prime minister Liz Truss has confirmed that it will endeavour to urgently address energy continuity challenges both within the UK and across Europe.

In doing so, it will be required to embrace critical issues that are rarely highlighted which face any long-term strategy to ensure security of supply across the UK; this all concurrent with achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

The latest government policy embraces the objectives of having 24GWe of nuclear generation by 2050 (by 2030 we can expect to have only the existing Sizewell B at 1.2GWe and the new Hinkley Point C at 3.2GWe) under a new nuclear directive body; quickly granting around a hundred new licences for extraction of gas and oil in the North Sea, and removing the current moratorium on fracking.

How secure and stable a supply have we created following privatisation some 20 years ago?

Most people will be unaware that during this summer’s UK heatwave...