Britain faces regular blackouts and rising bills

Britain faces the danger of repeated blackouts as clapped-out and crumbling power stations suffer a series of failures, it was claimed yesterday. More than 500,000 homes lost electricity for several hours after two major sites shut down suddenly on Tuesday.

Lights were dimmed in millions of homes as seven generating units at other power stations broke down too.

Problems continued yesterday when the Hunterston nuclear power reactor in Scotland failed. That meant ten of British Energy’s 16 nuclear generation units were out of service either for maintenance or through faults.

Daily Mail