Gas price spike: how UK government failures made a global crisis worse

By Michael Bradshaw, Professor of Global Energy, Warwick Business School, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick

The UK government has been in emergency talks with leaders from the energy industry as gas prices (and with them, electricity prices) have soared to more than four times the level they were at the same time in 2020.

Concerns are growing about the security of winter gas supplies, and industries reliant on gas, such as the fertiliser industry, are curtailing production, threatening various supply chains.…

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