{"id":418733,"date":"2010-03-11T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T22:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/engineers-warn-uk-may-run-out-of-power-by-2020-2010-3"},"modified":"2010-03-11T17:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T22:08:00","slug":"engineers-warn-uk-may-run-out-of-power-by-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/418733","title":{"rendered":"Engineers Warn UK May Run Out Of Power By 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While Downing Street struggles with a fiscal crisis<\/a>, UK bureaucracy threatens to run another sector into the ground: nuclear power.<\/p>\n

Delays and budget gaps may prevent a planned 11 nuke plants from coming online in the next decade, warns the Institution of Mechanical Engineers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The same engineers also warned in November<\/a> that Britain’s green tech plans were “physically impossible.”<\/p>\n

If the Institution is right, then the UK may face rolling power outages by 2020, according to the Telegraph<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Although the country could double down on output from old factories, doing so would have a high cost in carbon emission permits. Periodic blackouts<\/a> could be the only option.<\/p>\n

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