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,...