Sadly our gullible politicians have, for many years, been in the thrall of the vociferous green lobby and believed everything they told them. The manic rush to "Net Zero" has been carried out with almost messianic zeal, but has singularly failed to build in any resilience for when renewable aren't producing (like now) OR implement a long term energy policy.
A prime example being the destruction, rather than mothballing, of coal fired power stations, so now, with limited renewables we are struggling to produce enough electricity and are reliant on foreign countries to "top us up" at peak times IF they have any spare capacity to do so.
Just how our leaders think we will be able to manage in a few winters time when we are all expected to convert to EV's for transport and heat pumps in our houses when even now we are on a knife edge in regards to electrical generation, and our aging nuclear stations are reaching the end of their lives, so things can only get worse, is beyond me.
Chickens, home, roost??