IT may be of interest to note that yet again during this pandemic the UK power grid has had to rely upon Europe. Since last weekend, Scotland and the rest of mainland Britain has had to depend upon European imported power to keep our lights on and our hospitals and labs functioning as wind generation has collapsed and solar output in the cloudy, short-daylight weather has been typically low and brief. As at Tuesday mid-afternoon (March 2) Scotland was importing more than 1000MW from England, almost equivalent to a second Torness, who in turn are importing 5000MW, the maximum possible, from Europe – mostly nuclear power from France, where the new interconnector commissioned just recently is running flat out.