Power station boss warns against reliance on electricity imports

Will Gardiner, CEO of Drax Group, says interconnectors are threat to energy security

Britain's increasingly reliance on electricity imported from Europe threatens energy security and will import carbon emissions, according to the new boss of the country's biggest power station.

Will Gardiner, chief executive of Drax Group, said that the growing proportion of power forecast to come from interconnectors - physical links to transfer electricity across borders - would also fail to deliver the aims of the government's industrial strategy.