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... thanks to climate policies that have forced extensive reliance on wind power and deliberately driven energy prices skyward.... A new “smart grid” will be used to allocate decreasing electricity supplies, on a rolling basis or according to bureaucratic determinations as to which consumers most need available power – mostly from wind turbines that provided a pitiful 0.04% of Britain’s electricity during its coldest days last December.

That's a rather melodramatic and overstated picture of the energy prospects in the UK. In fact the target energy contribution from 'renewables' is 15% by 2020 - probably much too high, granted, but nowhere near the toal reliance implied by the article. The article is also silent about the inconvenient fact that the British government is committed to building eight new nuclear plants - that's eight more than are in prospect for the U.S., the last I heard.