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Thursday, 27 August 2026

British Gas Boss Warns UK Faces Winter Fuel Shortage Due to Reliance on Imports

The boss of British Gas’s owner has warned the UK faces fuel shortages this winter as stockpiles fall to just 30% owing to an over-reliance on imports. The Telegraph has more.

Chris O’Shea, the Chief Executive of Centrica, said Britain had “almost no gas in storage in the UK for the coming winter”.

O’Shea said low gas reserves in the UK were a “huge concern” and that the country had “for too long” relied on other countries for energy imports while underinvesting in storage and power plants.

Britain’s gas facilities were around 30% full this week, down from 46% at the same time last year. They were more than 90% full in the two years before that.

Gas levels are currently at the lowest level for August since records began, according to Bloomberg data....<<<Read More>>>....