I don't think there is a lack of power capacity, don't forget the UK uses less power than it used to do, so there is less demand on the grid. Quite a few of the coal plants have been converted to use gas or burn biomass, so there's still capacity.
What previous govs should have been doing is increasing storage capacity of gas, we are increasing on the end of a long chain, as N Sea sources reduce over time. We need to be able to ride out gas price fluctuations.
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