According to the Telegraph, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero Ed Miliband has “been accused of ‘covering up’ evidence that Labour’s Net Zero plans will increase household electricity bills”. A “full cost-benefit analysis” of “regional energy pricing” had been promised, according to the newspaper, but so far Miliband’s department has yet to produce the goods, with complainants claiming that the results would undermine his Clean Power 2030 agenda, and this explains its absence, they claim. No doubt, both Net Zero and Miliband’s 2030 agenda are falling apart. But this spat between a Minister and his shadow is not a war that we should take sides in, as neither represent our interests and the criticism of Miliband fails to address the real problems with any part of Net Zero.
The accusations emerge from the Conservative Party and an organisation called Britain Remade, which the Telegraph describe as “a Right-leaning think tank”. But that is misleading. A naïve reading of the piece would leave the impression that both Britain Remade and the Conservatives are Net Zero sceptics. But Britain Remade is a Green Blob-funded organisation, founded by (among other former green-Tory wonks) Sam Richards, a former advisor to Boris Johnson’s government – which sought to remake Britain as “the Saudi Arabia of wind” Presumably, Richards told Johnson it was a good idea.
There is an apparent split in the Green Blob over the question of how to manage and charge for use of the grid. There
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Reform makes it very plain that it will ditch Net Zero.
The Not-a-Conservative-Party doesn’t, because it won’t. They constantly talk about slowing it down; making it work better etc.
When ever i see Sunak and Johnson in the same video talking about something, its not going to work out well for us
The problem is electricity does not exist as a tangible good, like oil or wheat.
Arbitrage means buying and moving a good from where and when its price is low, supply is high, to sell where and when its price is high, supply is low. It often includes futures.
An important aspect of arbitrage is… you need to know in advance. It is impossible to know in advance, even 24 hours in advance, what the supply of wind and solar will be. Also it can involve waiting, buying then waiting a few days to see where market rates are highest. And buying futures. This isn’t possible with wind and solar.
Typically up to 15% of electricity generated is lost on the grid during transmission to heat and noise, depending on how far it has to travel, but most spinning generators are sited close as possible to points of consumption to reduce this. The big distances between offshore wind and Scottish on-shore wind means much greater loss – and the consumer will have to pay.
The root problem is that electrical output from wind and solar is (ironically) unsustainable, or predictable.
There is no solution.
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Furthermore, it was Claire Coutinho who, when she had the energy brief, having failed to secure contracts from offshore wind developers in 2023, increased the governments offer of subsidies to them by nearly 60%.
And this lying bitch claimed these increases would save us money. I guess she had help from Diane Abbott on the maths and from the office temp Rachel on the economics. Let us hope we can give her party a kicking in the polls tomorrow and send a signal that she was lucky in 2024 and will not be in 2029.
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After seeing a recent clip of this madman, I am beginning to suspect that he is demonically possessed. The contortions of his face as he was defiantly speaking, the bulging eyes, the extreme emotionality, the arrogance etc. etc. It was almost as if he had something bouncing around inside his head producing extreme contortions and speech, much like we see in those old Merrie Melodies cartoons.
In a cartoon, it’s hilarious; in a human it’s horrifying.
I wish I could link here to it but it was passing and I never bookmarked it.
If you don’t believe in “demonic influence”, fair enough. People no longer believe in the Divine, so would not believe in the satanic either. But somehow we have normalised the Satanists who are all over Hollywood and certain celebrities, yet we don’t see “Satan” as any more real than God.
For those non-believers, yet possessing some curiosity, take a listen to this chap:
https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-show-chad-ripperger-040326
By the way, my background is in hard science. Physics all the way to degree level, plus a lifetime of involvement with the scientific method & technology.
If not demonic, then certainly psychotic.
Do we have to see his revolting face?
I don’t think he has any other face.
I rarely find myself applauding Barry Gardiner (occasionally on Friday night on gbnews), but I was delighted to hear him skewering Coutinho the other evening, replaying her words as energy secretary and all she could do was bluster and claim she was new to the brief and didn’t know what she was saying. We truly have the worst cohort of politicians in the current era.
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A load of balls?
Cheaper Energy In Name Only? The Conservatives have form in how they present ideas that they don’t wish to implement..
As this very publication made clear a few days ago, as long as the CEN (Conservative Environmental Network) exists, you can never trust the Tories on this issue.
Coutinho was way out of her depth when Sunak gave her the Energy gig. She slightly watered down the utterly deranged plans of Johnson, but that was it. If focus groups supported windmills then so would she.
Tories are weathervanes not signposts.
She was appointed as the MP in my consituency because she was mates with Sushi Sunak.
The local Association were fuming.