Yep. I was with Green. Second company in a row I have been with that has gone bump.
Anyone any idea why the UK has one of the lowest amount of gas storage in Europe?
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Generally we seem to be good at failing to do "Disaster planning" and looking further than the end of our noses.
People will have looked at it and thought storing it is inefficient and a waste of money as you have to pay to build infrastructure then buy gas and store it before you actually need it.
Unfortunately this country is often run by "bean counting" accountants whose only thoughts are short term in that the balance sheet needs to look good this year and they forget about 5 years time.
What they don't seem capable of factoring in is that it's cheaper in the long term to buy the gas to replenish the store when it's cheap and when the price is hiked you just use up some of the store.
The argument will have also been used that we can get more power from Europe if needed, all well and good until an interconnector fire happens which apparently takes over 6 months to fix
It's basically like running a company on a JIT system, great until something goes wrong or unforeseen happens like the interconnector