RE: Gas ‘crisis’ prompts calls for fantasy solutions.

This is the title of an article by former chief executive of Npower, Paul Massara published in Utility Week (hardly a left-wing propaganda rag).

“I find it extraordinary that anyone still seriously believes that the UK will have a shale gas industry mimicking that of the US”, he writes.

Fracking has at most a minor part to play, something which the government knows but will not acknowledge. Other solutions he dismisses as fantasies include modular nuclear reactors, and nuclear fusion, at least as a contribution to energy security in the next decade or so. Instead he advocates boring solutions such as better house insulation, more onshore and offshore wind, and better integration of battery storage into the grid.

Referring to the ‘Beast from the East’ the author wrote, “Whether it really was a crisis is debatable. The market worked – scarcity drove prices up, the market responded.”

Readers may wish to read the full article at utilityweek.co.uk/ gas-crisis-prompts-calls-fantasysolutions/

DAVID SMITH

Weymouth