‘Just build it! Just do it!’: Journalist’s passionate plea for more home grown energy production

Journalist Tom Harwood has made an impassioned plea to politicians to stop blocking homegrown energy production, citing “30 years of policy failure”.

Conflict in Ukraine has put the spotlight on Britain’s reliance on energy imports to satisfy demand, with 1970s-style blackouts even considered at the end of last year.

The head of the National Grid warned that UK households could see switch-offs imposed between 4pm and 7pm on “really, really cold” winter weekdays if Europe cuts gas exports.

John Pettigrew said electricity and gas may be switched off on “those deepest, darkest evenings in January and February” if energy supplies from Europe prove insufficient due to the disruption of the war in Ukraine.

Commenting on the shortages on BBC Question Time, Harwood called on politicians to find a solution closer to home sooner rather than later.

Watch his impassioned plea below:

Jack Peat

Jack is a business and economics journalist and the founder of The London Economic (TLE). He has contributed articles to VICE, Huffington Post and Independent and is a published author. Jack read History at the University of Wales, Bangor and has a Masters in Journalism from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.