Electricity Blackouts Sooner Than Anticipated?

We have long known that EU power directives which are allegedly 'green' would eventually lead to times when there would be power blackouts in the UK. It now appears that these may arrive as early as next winter!

Royal Academy of Engineering experts are issuing warnings.
That the EU should have brought us to this point is just absurd but we must be 100% fair - both Labour and Tory administrations have been wretched in their forward planning.
France has long had a full, safe and efficient nuclear industry.