UK households and businesses face electricity blackouts in just a few years say two of the country’s leading energy experts. Peter McCusker reports. “THE situation is really quite serious. We will have to keep our coal-fired power stations open and get fined by the EU,” says Prof Ian Fells, one of the UK’s leading energy experts. He continued: “By 2015 we will be vulnerable. For the last four years the Government has been sitting on its hands doing nothing, and this is really unacceptable.” Back in 2004 Prof Fells warned of the UK’s looming energy crisis and he followed this up in 2008 with a 50-page paper elaborating on his views. Its publication was picked-up by various media outlets and he recounts: “I appeared on Radio Four with Lord Hutton (Government minister with responsibility for energy security issues) where I was accused of being an alarmist. “But now it’s not just me who’s saying it. It’s Ofgem and many others,” explains the emeritus professor of energy at Newcastle...
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