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Windless Week Leaves Britain Totally Dependent on Imported Electricity

Hardly the 'energy security' Ed Miliband continually warbles on about

Paul Homewood
Oct 20, 2025
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If you live in the UK you will have noticed that for most of the last week there was very little wind:

From Sunday through to Friday, wind power was only running at an average of below 2 GW, which is around 7% of demand and, coincidentally, also 7% of its potential capacity:

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