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Guardian: Britain could face a return within 18 months to 70s-style power rationing to prevent blackouts, screamed one tabloid front page on Friday, conjuring up a vision of coalminer militancy and the three-day week.
The irony of the latest scare is that the big employers in this scenario – the energy companies – have partly created the threat of electricity disruption by using too much coal too quickly and mothballing their gas-fired power stations.
There is certainly a problem. The energy regulator,......
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Does the UK really face electricity blackouts?
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 28th, 2013
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