Britain's creaking energy grid risks short-circuiting UK growth

Britain's creaking energy grid risks short-circuiting UK growth

55 million. That’s the number of people who lost power during the blackout in the Iberian Peninsula. Transport came to a standstill, surgeries were postponed, teachers taught in the dark, families ate by candlelight. Onlookers described it as “post-apocalyptic.” The saga was a brutal reminder that no modern society is as self-sufficient as it thinks. We are a civilisation dependent on energy. When the grid goes down, the hyper-connected modern s…