Net Zero Is Leaving Britain Vulnerable To Months-Long Blackouts

Britain’s rush to Net Zero has left the country facing the possibility of blackouts lasting months

Official reports warn that Ed Miliband’s net zero push is leaving the country increasingly vulnerable to blackouts similar to the one recently experienced in Spain.

Raising concerns that the switch from dependable gas to intermittent wind and solar power would “reduce network stability” the grid operator also said the cost to taxpayers for funding measures to prevent the system crashing was set to “increase significantly” to £1 billion a year.

The Telegraph reports: Meanwhile, the global energy watchdog has sounded the alarm over the “premature retirement” of gas power plants “without adequate replacements”.

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It can also be revealed that Government officials have admitted it would take Britain “several months” to fully recover from a nationwide electricity outage.

Spain and Portugal were hit by huge power cuts last month, which experts have said were likely to have been caused by their reliance on renewable energy. Ministers have played down the prospect of such a blackout happening in the UK, insisting Britain has a “highly resilient energy network”.

It comes after a power cut at Heathrow in March, which shut the airport for 24 hours, raised questions about the reliability of the electricity network.

The National System Energy Operator (Neso), which runs the grid, published a report in that same month, which warned of an increased risk of “outages”. It set out that the reduction in “synchronous” power generation, such as from gas and nuclear, in favour of renewables “reduces network stability”.

“This can result in high impact system events, such as severe frequency deviations and failure of transmission protection schemes to detect and isolate faults, increasing the risk of equipment damage and outages,” it added.

“The growing penetration of asynchronous assets, such as solar PV, wind farms, and battery energy storage systems, introduces a range of challenges to system strength.”

In response, Britain is having to invest large amounts of cash in “stability network services”, such as mass battery storage, to back up the system. Neso said the cost of these would “increase significantly by 2030, up to an estimated £1 billion a year”, citing modelling by Imperial College London.

In a separate report, published last month, the International Energy Agency (IEA) also raised concerns over switching too quickly to renewables.