General Discussion
Typical Britain, all eggs in one basket. Only one major airport, that only has one substation, no backup substation, backup genies too weak to continue normal operations.
Same old story, no money for anything but migrants and net zero nonsense. Whatever the cost of rigging up another supply has been dwarfed by today's costs.
It’s not hindsight, they should have known this could happen.
We will get a lot more energy issues due to the net zero scam. The government is our worst enemy.
You'll be pleased to know we will be forking out £525,000 a year for a net zero tsar to head Ed's new quango as well as £117,800 a year on a HR director.
According to news articles, Heathrow did have a diesel generator backup but it was removed as part of their drive to net zero.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/21/fire-rages-electrical-substation-hayes