Last week, I came across a government database that I had not heard of before, namely the Subsidy Control Transparency Database. The database was mentioned in an update email from DESNZ, telling me that the results of the Contracts for Difference Allocation Round 6 (AR6) had been loaded on to it. Of course, my curiosity got the better of me and I had to dig in to see what other Net Zero and energy related subsidies might be lurking within.
In the film Whisky Galore, the SS Cabinet Minister runs aground and its cargo of whisky is harvested by the locals. Our cabinet ministers have yet to run aground, but there are plenty of people eager to harvest the subsidies on offer. Over the past two years, I have come across some egregious things in Net Zero world, but even I was shocked by some of the scale of some of the subsidy schemes that have been implemented.
Subsidy Control Transparency Database
Before we dig into the Net Zero and energy related items, we should note some important caveats about the whole database. First, for subsidies recorded as part of the Contract for Difference Scheme (CfD), the government claims the amounts are a “higher end estimate”. Second, it appears as though there are some duplicate entries, for instance SC10301 and SC10069 are both support measures for the development of film audiences, in the sum of £60 million with identical start dates. Finally, the budget amounts might be suspect because the most expensive subsidy line is SC1005, U.K. Film Tax Relief Prolongation which is supposed to cost £2,960 billion, that’s more than U.K. GDP, between April 2020 and April 2025. It is very unlikely that this figure is accurate and so it calls into question the accuracy of other entries in the database.
Of the 1,169 schemes in the database, 1,025 of them have active status. Of these, I judged 144 of them to be Net Zero or energy-related. The total budget for these items is £328 billion – yes, billion, with a ‘b’.
However, there are two items related to the Renewables Obligation Scheme, items SC11007 and SC10753, that have budget values of £1 and £0 respectively. This suggests the budget is understated by a considerable margin, as the OBR forecasts that the RO scheme will cost well over £7 biilion per year for the next few years. The RO scheme has been running for quite some time, so the cumulative subsidies by the end of the scheme must be measured in the high tens of billions, possibly over £100 billion.
There are so many schemes that it is difficult to cover them all here, so we will focus on the largest items and highlight some of the most grotesque absurdities.
Electricity Generation Subsidies
The largest cluster of subsidies is for generating electricity. This includes Contracts for Difference (CfDs), Feed-in Tariffs (FiTs) and ROs. The budget value for CfDs allocated in Allocation Round 6 (AR6), item SC11117, will cost £45 billion over its lifetime. CfDs from AR5 will cost £5 billion, AR4 will cost £15 billion and CfDs from earlier rounds another £15 billion. Some individual offshore wind farms are listed, such as Hornsea (£3.4 billion), Walney (£2.1 billion) and Beatrice (£1.9 billion). Wind energy on remote islands is scheduled to receive £15 billion of subsidies between October 2017 and March 2025. FiTs are calculated to cost £31 billion (item SC10220).
Subsidies to Mitigate Intermittent Renewables
As well as being expensive, wind and solar renewables are, of course, intermittent, so we need to pay for backup when the sun is not shining and the wind is not blowing – or blowing too hard. The Government has created the Capacity Market to provide the backup, but it too will require a subsidy estimated at £16.1 billion up to mid-December 2024. They obviously need to update this figure, as the OBR forecasts that the annual cost of the Capacity Market will rise from approximately £1 billion in 2023–24 to £4 billion by 2027–28. The total forecast from 2023–24 to 2029–30 is over £19 billion.
There’s even a £14 million subsidy scheme (SC10810) to “support innovative technologies with potential to mitigate impacts of offshore wind farms on U.K. Air Defence”.
Subsidies for Using Expensive Electricity
The largest single energy-related item with the highest value is the British Industry Supercharger Package for energy-intensive industries (EIIs) (Item SC11062), with a value of £51 billion. This is designed to provide “electricity price support” to around 370 energy-intensive businesses in sectors such as steel, paper and batteries. There is another £936 million for the Energy Bills Discount Scheme, again targeted at EIIs.
We have a total of £87.4 billion in subsidies for CfDs, another £31 billion for Feed-in Tariffs, £15 billion for remote island wind plus a very large but unknown amount of subsidies for Renewables Obligations, which are, of course, making our electricity very expensive. On top of that, there is well over £16 billion for the capacity market. To compensate for that, we are going to spend £52 billion supporting energy-intensive industries. It is simply an absurd government merry-go-round of subsidy upon subsidy in a vain attempt to mitigate our insane energy policy.
We pay for more than 4,500 people in DESNZ, at a cost of over £400 million per year, many of them to devise these parasitic schemes that are destroying the economy.
Subsidies for Biofuels
In addition to the subsidies for electricity generation, there is an insane total of £45 billion allocated to various Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) schemes (Items SC10126, SC10120 and SC10119), which essentially incentivise farmers to burn wood to heat empty sheds out to 2040.
There is also another £2 billion for green gas and a further £1.1 billion for the Teesside CHP biomass plant.
Subsidies to Make Electricity Generation Less Efficient
But the madness does not stop there, because another £30 billion of subsidy has been allocated to the Dispatchable Power Agreement Business Model (Item SC11175), designed to support gas-fired power stations by incentivising the installation of carbon capture and storage (CCUS) equipment. There is another £13 billion to be spent on other CCUS-related subsidies and £2.5 billion more for various hydrogen subsidy schemes.
Subsidies to Transform Society
A total of £1.28 billion has been allocated to transforming the automotive industry to deliver an electrified supply chain and a further £289 million for the Industrial Energy Transformation Fund (IETF).
Several other items relate to decarbonising heat in social housing, worth a total of £2.1 billion and a further £450 million for boiler upgrade schemes. These schemes are designed to implement the same types of measures that the Government DEEP report calculated would have payback times measured in centuries or millennia.
On top of all that, there is another £567 million subsidy for various ultra-low emissions bus projects.
Subsides for Reliable Energy
In contrast to the hundreds of billions to be spent subsidising low-density, intermittent power sources like wind and solar, £409 million (with an ‘m’) will be spent on various nuclear research and development projects. They have also calculated that the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant will only cost £130 million, which is an anomalously low figure, since they are projecting spending of almost £8 billion on Sizewell C. Even that figure pales into insignificance compared to the various forms of renewable subsidies.
Conclusions
We must exercise some caution when drawing conclusions because of the obvious howlers in the data. Of course, we are not going to spend £2,960 billion on tax relief for the film industry. However, when it comes to the energy-related items, it does appear as though the mistakes tend to underestimate the cost of subsidies. The RO scheme will obviously cost much more than £1, and the Capacity Market will cost more than £16 billion.
We see a truly surreal arrangement of subsidy schemes, ploughing hundreds of billions into renewables, alongside additional tens of billions in subsidies to industry to mitigate the impact of the resulting high energy prices. It is completely insane. All this renewable energy largesse contrasts markedly with just £24.6 million allocated to the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust, mostly capital funding for housing.
Imagine what society would look like if we stopped subsidising incompetent and expensive forms of energy and their parasitic cheerleaders. Bills would be lower, taxes could be lower and more companies would have the confidence to invest in Britain and create jobs. Expensive energy and the accompanying subsidies are killing the economy. We must ditch the Net Zero madness now.
David Turver writes the Eigen Values Substack, where this article first appeared.
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blood clots or heart attack. maybe I’ll just rely on the ol’ immune system.
+1
This is what you get when you take untested vaccines. Two years ago if the Government said to 65 million people “Take this needle in your arm which is untested, a brand new procedure which has never passed testing anywhere in the world because almost all animals tested with it since 2002 died” what would the majority have said? Now they queue up for it and shout down anyone who dares tell the truth. I’ve come to the point where I can’t be bothered with them any more and figure they deserve everything they are going to get. The reason the animals died is well known and the world will be a better place when the Covidians die out.
Quite – but not all at once please!
For anyone who is having a bad day. Pure gold:
‘Joe Biden’s worst 100 days’
‘The only good thing about the complete drivelling idiots now in charge of our federal government is that they are both so extreme and so stupid that not even their plan to legislate fraudulent voting can save them from electoral disaster in 2022 and 2024. In less than 100 days this administration has created the worst illegal immigration problem yet; made the US a mockery in the rest of the world; threatened to plunge us into stupid military conflicts; laid the groundwork for China to pull even further ahead in educational, scientific and industrial capabilities; created unavoidable extreme inflation pressures while ensuring that growth will disappear (it is hilarious to see Jerome Powell tell us not to worry, they have the tools to control inflation); run the debt and deficit up to new highs which are completely unsustainable and created the most divisive racial situation in the country for decades. Not bad for a senile, corrupt lifelong political hack. How much of a moron do you have to be to attempt these radical things at a time when you hold the House by 3 votes and the Senate is a tie………’
https://healthy-skeptic.com/2021/04/22/joe-bidens-worst-100-days/
Yep – two utter morons in a row is a heavy cross to bear.
Looks like Biden has a supporter
And now it looks rather more as if Trump has LOTS of supporters.
Who gives a toss about that gone con artist and his fraudulent background?
Lockdown has lots of supporters (more than Trump, even). It remains a stupid phenomenon. Just like Trump.
But what’s the moron – or his alternative – doing here?
When you get away with stealing an election, you aren’t threatened by future voters. You relish the ruin you are wrecking.
If you’ve gotten away with stealing the election, you don’t worry about future elections. The new administration is wrecking run on purpose.
Wrecking ruin
I’m hoping someone here can clarify exactly what the animal testing situation is on covid vaccines, I’m hearing different reports, some say covid vaccine trials on animals were skipped, others say they did do trials. Which is it? If they did do the trials I presume the results were ok? Or was it a case some animal testing was done but it was not the full set of tests that would normally be required?
From what I remember, Dr Mike Yeadon said that no animal trials were carried out on the current covid “vaccines”. He did say that previous attempts to manufacture a mRNA coronavirus vaccine resulted in the death of all the animal subjects when challenged with the wild virus.
I read that there were animal trials done but I don’t know if they followed up on the animals. So nobody knows the long term effects.
There is some info about it here:
https://regenerativemc.com/pfizer-animal-trial-results/
https://regenerativemc.com/thursday-4-8-2021-what-happened-in-the-animal-trials-for-mrna-vaccines/
More info about animal trials
Thanks guys, I wish I could remember where, but thought I read/saw some expert rebuttal insisting animal trials were carried out but it didn’t go into detail which always makes me suspicious. I always find it very frustrating not being able to have a proper, live discussion with these people to ensure they’re not inadvertently giving a false impression.
Many thanks for the links, I’ll have a closer read later, initial impression which may be wrong is trials on something similar but not a (mRNA) covid vaccine suggested caution to a human vaccine is indicated and trials of actual covid vaccine were only on 24 mice and 18 macaques and relatively short duration. i.e. so far seems to me animal trials were done but not exactly thorough, but I’ll need to read more thoroughly.
Yes in all the ones I read they declared the animals totally fine and killed them after a week to check out their lungs and confirm that they were totally fine.
Much more detailed and careful research was done after the disastrous RSV vax in the 60s. I think we have to wait for something to go equally disastrously wrong before anyone will replicate this research for SARS2.
I read they killed them all on previous mRNA trials but just stopped following them after the pfizer ones. Both choices appear peculiar to me. Then again, I haven’t read about trials extensively before.
It’s pretty much academic now that the vaccines have been used on an unprecedentedly large number of people already.
I don’t expect VAERD to be a problem except with Coronavac, and I don’t know how common it is/will be. I still haven’t seen their full results from Chile. I heard 80% efficacy against death– but what were the ages of those who did die after the vaccine? This is important to know.
But while I say I don’t expect this I don’t know for sure and nor does anyone because nobody has done the detailed research we would need to understand this better. We never really go to the bottom of it for RSV, SARS1 and MERS (and atypical measles which I think is a similar issue). We have a plausible theory about it but no more than that.
The theory I keep reading about is that when people are exposed to a wild type of the virus, the immune system might overreact. For example, if the lung is infected then it might start attacking the lungs.
If this is true, lots of people will die. I have no idea how likely this is since I’m not an expert and although some scientists are saying this, many are not. Most of the ‘vaccine deaths’ I have read about it appear to be completely random organ failure/heart attacks and so on.
I read the actual papers for AZ and Coronavac and they both tested on monkeys. Who did not get VAERD (vaccine associated enhanced respiratory disease). I’d be surprised if the mRNA vaccines were not tested in the same way.
More recently however CureVac (who are making a fridge temperature mRNA vaccine) did a controlled experiment and managed to produce VAERD for SARS2 in mice not with their vaccine but with a deliberately sketchy one to prove the theory about how it can happen.
Coronavac (which has been widely used in Turkey, Brazil, other places probably, and of course China) basically does everything wrong according to that theory, should never have been approved, and there are already disturbing news reports from Brazil of what sounds like VAERD.
I don’t think we will see this problem with the other vaccines. If we do then in order of likeliest first, of the front runners, it will be Covaxin, Novavax, the mRNA ones, J&J, AZ.
AZ comes out the best here for once
But I wouldn’t take it unless you have carefully weighed the risk of severe adverse events involving blood clots.
What are you basing these claims on, i.e. relating to the propensity of different vaccine types to be associated with disease enhancement? From my reading about previous instances of vaccine-related disease enhancement it’s not possible to conclude that it’s necessarily associated with certain vaccine types and not others. It’s also far too early to be drawing any conclusions about any of the Covid vaccines in use with respect to this.
The basic theory is that enhancement arises from a bias away from “Th1” towards either “Th2” or “Th17”. These are sort of overall immune system strategies, and Th1 is the one you want for viruses.
Various things were shown to prevent VAERD in mice along these lines– using an adjuvant that biases towards Th1, or, even better, using a live attenuated virus as the vaccine.
A live attenuated virus actually infects cells and present antigens on MHC1 to CD8+ T-cells. This is really the best way to get a Th1 response and may be protective in itself. An mRNA or vector vaccine is an approximation of a live attenuated vaccine (but is safer). The antigen doesn’t exist in your body until it’s created inside cells and is therefore almost guaranteed to be perceived as a virus, with CD8+ T-cells and Th1 cytokines.
Inactivated whole virus vaccines (like Coronavac and Covaxin) and protein subunit vaccines (like Novavax) tend to be worse, but you can try to bias things back towards Th1 with a careful choice of adjuvant. Covaxin and Novavax do this. Coronavac uses alum, a known Th2-biasing adjuvant.
There is also some evidence that including the N protein in the vaccine makes things worse.
Enhancement has however been seen with MVA vectored vaccines that encode just the spike for SARS1 (https://insight.jci.org/articles/view/123158) so just using a vector vaccine is not a guarantee. But MVA is known to give a defective CD8+ response (which can also be fixed with an adjuvant) so maybe that’s what happened there.
SARS2 can enhance (as CureVac showed, with a protein subunit vaccine) but it does seem to do it less than SARS1 did, where it was kind of obvious right from the start with pretty much any vaccine.
It’s all too uncertain. From my readings there are multiple possible mechanisms for disease enhancement. It has also occurred with different types of vaccines – including viral vector vaccines as you point out. There’s no way on the basis of what is known that you can neatly order vaccines in order of likelihood to cause disease enhancement. It seems to be a quite poorly understood phenomenon.
Thanks everyone for all the responses to my question, very interesting and much appreciated.
80 years ago the Luftwaffe was pounding British Cities and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was leading the world against Tyranny.
Today British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is the enemy of the British and wants to impose a permanent Global Tyranny on Britain.
Nationwide protests ERUPT against Lockdowns! THIS IS GETTING HUGE Over 1 million protesters in London. Britain WILL take back its freedom!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvR-0wK3wBc
It’s a bit difficult to judge size over the live feed – but those of us who remember the Iraq protest may be a bit sceptical in terms of ultimate impact in this sad apology for democracy.
Thought I would check this out as the march has cheered me up so much. But guess what? They have already taken it down.
God, I hate them
Actually, sorry, it does come on after a fair bit of waiting ha ha
Though I don’t take back the end of my last comment
They never learn do they? Something similar happened after the 1976 Swine flu vaccine when 500 people developed Guillain Barre syndrome and again after the 2009 Swine flu outbreak when people, especially children, developed narcolepsy after being vaccinated.
We are all just lab. rats.
GBS is an autoimmune reaction. Myocarditis is a rare condition following infection or some medication including some antibiotics, flu vaccine, smallpox vaccine and diphtheria vaccine. Apparently it could be a T cell mediated autoimmune response.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30795818/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15878006
https://smallpox1962.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/hello-world/
The genesis of the vaccine programme was rooted in pure idiocy.
To purchase :
… was stupid/corrupt in the extreme.
That people fall for it is a measure of how the normal functioning of brains have been corrupted by the psy-op programme
Unfortunately this is what can happen when you rush out a new medical technology like a bull in a china shop. This must have been one of the biggest medical experiments in the history of mankind and I still struggle with understanding what it is really all about.
Under 30’s negligible risk of COVID death. An otherwise healthy 30 y.o. Takes a vaccine, then suffers a serious adverse event, like myocarditis. This is unforgivable. There is a valid reason these drugs must go through a rigorous trial to avoid harm. Sadly, these drugs are in trial with no long term safety or efficacy data. Criminal negligence being carried out by governments, health authorities and all the nurses and doctors and others administering experimental vaccines.