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Engineers warn of looming UK energy gap
2016-01-26 07:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The UK is facing an unprecedented energy gap in a decades time, according to engineers, with demand for electricity likely to outstrip supply by more than 40%, which could lead to black outs . New policies to stop unabated coal-fired power generation by 2025, and the phasing out of ageing nuclear reactors without plans in place to build a new fleet of gas-fired electricity plants, will combine to create a supply crunch, according to a new study. Under current [government] policy, it is...
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