Silicon Valley is nothing to do with the UK and our problems. There is nothing new here in the UK, it was said years ago that urgent action was needed to prevent power cuts, that action has not been taken by the UK LabourGovernment and they are therefore having to plan for cuts. They are a disaster. This is one problem that is directly and indisputibly due to this present Government and no there is no way they can stretch out time-lines enough to blame the last Government.
This is no problem that has crept up on us, it was known about and forecasted and the Government did not act when it needed to. We discussed this on this very forum a couple of years ago. So you cant excuse the Government - the buck clearly stops with them.
the Telegraph and Daily Mail have both highlighted the problem among others.
Here is the Telegraph leader:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/6120075/When-the-power-cuts-start-blame-Labour.html
Other countries may have their own problems but it is the duty of our Government to ensure that the UK is well prepared and they have failed... full stop.