Will Gardiner, CEO of Drax Group, says interconnectors are threat to energy securityBritain’s increasingly reliance on electricity imported from Europe threatens energy security and will import carbon emissions, according to the new boss of the country’s biggest power station. “The hot topic at the moment is what we do about interconnectors,” said Gardiner, who wants to build a vast new gas power and battery storage plant at the company’s North Yorkshire coal and biomass power station. The government expects imports to supply 22% of electricity by 2025, up from 6% last year. That drove contract prices too low to encourage large new gas plants to be built and saw two of Drax’s new small gas power stations miss out on contracts. Gardiner said that because the UK carbon price was higher than on the continent, more electricity links meant the UK would be importing emissions.

Source: The Guardian May 20, 2018 16:05 UTC