Thats because, boris. And ever since blair.
We live on an island surrounded by oil, gas, good for at least 100 years of cheap easy to access fuels. Unlike the EU countries we have an abundance of energy. And we have another 50 to 70 years worth of coal to run power stations. As well as 200 years worth of unused shale gas...
So why the oil, fuel, gas, and electricity price and acessibility problems? And why power cuts in winter?
Because for 30 years our governments have been brainwashed into this fossil fuel destroys the planet bollox. And refusing to allow permits to even map out fresh oil and gas feilds around our coasts. And allowing most of the existing ones to run dry and shut up shop. Including the ones near me. To be replaced with 400 BILLION worth of totally hopeless windmlls. Why is that an issue? Well up to 66 percent of our electricity is generated by burning north sea GAS. Or it was. Now most of the gas has to be bought from the rest of the world, in massive cryo tankers in a just in time manner as we cant store it.
Boris also went on TV and was filmed showing how marvelous he was by destroying (blowing up) yet another coal station, and stressing that we had gone a full day without burning any coal. Which was cheap energy. Now the coal mines are all abandoned and flooded. Another waste of cheap energy that britain was built on. We now buy that across the world at stupid prices for industry.
Today borises 400 billion pounds, 20 year plan, are doing better than yesterday at 2.2% of our electrical needs. So that is a completely useless waste of money.
He still wont allow licences for oil or gas from the north seal Still will not use or coal. Or allow our shale gas to be used.
And the saving grace was nuclear. But the green lobby (boris??) dont like those either. So out of our 29 nuclear power stations only 13 remain active. All are at end of life, to be closed before 2030. So that means another 18% of our generation woll be lost.
Boris thinks more windmills is he answer. Which means if he spent 400 BILLION all over again then we would be making 4.4% of the power we need! And that will take another 20 years.
Worse, he wants us to use HYDROGEN! Guess how thats made. You got it, electricity. So thats a great idea! And he wants electric cars, trucks, shipping, and houshold heating. Which will increase the demand on electrical generation by over 5 fold. And he is already expecting power cuts over winter. And blaming everything except his own stupidity.
LIVE data.
https://gridwatch.templar.co.uk/ Sometimes wind gets up to 25% of our needs. But some weeks its below 2% all week long! So ultimately useless.