Hence my comment, as I was quite confident there was a typo.
The Ukrainian war turned generation requirements on its head. The UK was supporting Europe with as much LNG (Europe had insufficient capacity to import sufficient gas from the US at the time) as possible. The rather unseasonable winter this year has resulted in statistics comparing recent quarters as just an abnormal statistical variation - almost amounting to lies, without including all these extra non-normal things going on. France, for instance, have now restarted a whole bunch of nuclear, so inter-connectors have likely reduced our gas generation requirements.
That journalist was just making up a rubbish story from the data he was either not aware of or was simply ignoring - for the sake of column-space in a a journal.
I remain of the opinion that the story was just that - made up to take up space.
