The Gas burning power plants RELY on piped in fuel as opposed to keeping a supply on site...the monies spent on solar and wind(which will never break even let alone show a profit)could have easily supplied storage tanks and planned new construction of future plants....they took all the government grants for solar and wind and this is the end result. Simple greed .
“they took all the government grants for solar and wind and this is the end result”
CA did the same thing.
Take all the subsidies, comply with all the mandates and advertise how green you are.
Maybe put a butterfly in your ad.
AND there is no incentive for producers to invest in any conventional generation capacity, as they are forced to sell that power to any/all intermediaries at cost...generating no profit for the investment.
No regulatory requirement to keep generation capacity in reserve. No requirement to keep contracts with outside suppliers (exorbitant prices) “just in case”.
The worst of both regulation, and deregulation. And a recipe for disaster.
And entirely predictable.