This video explains, in plain engineering terms, why the UK’s energy system is struggling.
It is not political; it is a factual breakdown of the grid, storage limits and system costs.

What this video covers:
• Why 37 per cent of Scottish wind was wasted in early 2025
• How over £1.5 billion has been paid out in curtailment since 2021
• Why the Scotland–England grid bottleneck cripples the system
• Why the UK has less than 0.1 TWh of storage but needs 100–150 TWh
• Why gas remains essential for stability and inertia
• How hidden levies and balancing charges feed directly into bills
• How the system was expanded in the wrong order, guaranteeing failure

This is an engineering explanation of how the UK energy transition was built backwards — and why the consequences are now hitting households and industry.

A full 14-minute podcast version is available on Spotify.

Full long-form 14-minute discussion is on Spotify.
This video is the short visual explainer — the podcast digs deeper into storage, curtailment and system stability.

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