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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Nationalise gas power plants to boost energy security thinktank urges uk ministers | History Defined

steam and smoke bellows from the Connah’s Quay gas plant in north Wales
The Connah’s Quay gas plant in north Wales, operated by German state-owned Uniper, raked in revenues of £10.3m from the grid operator during a cold snap that coincided with low wind power output. Photograph: Adam Vaughan/EPA

Britain’s gas power stations should be nationalised to prevent their owners from holding the electricity market “to ransom”, a thinktank has urged.

The country’s dwindling fossil fuel power plants are ripe for nationalisation as ministers aim to reduce gas consumption to just 5% of the electricity system by 2030, according to a report by Common Wealth.

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