EU power shock

The EU Court of Justice has ruled the UK should not be allowed to pay power plants to stay open since it was “illegal state aid”. At present the “capacity market” provides a pool of £1bn to be paid to gas, coal and nuclear companies to guarantee there is enough electricity to meet demand.

This scheme is essential because of the risk of the black-outs caused by reliance on wind since it only produces part-time electricity. This ruling endangers the national electricity supply as the winter approaches when wind electricity will be unreliable.

The UK should ignore this latest EU diktat.

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