A BBC show has claimed that electricity is expensive because of the price of gas. That's nonsense, says David Turver. When taxpayer subsidies are included, electricity from renewables is far more expensive than from gas.
Why does UK electricity cost so much? On the BBC yesterday Energy UK's Adam Berman revealed that it's because gas is setting the price but the Government is pocketing the difference, refusing to pass it on to consumers.
Ed Miliband has promised to save Britain's economy from Trump's tariffs. But it wasn't Trump who closed Britain's coal-fired power stations, nor ended oil and gas exploration, nor banned fracking, says Ben Pile.
Rebel Energy is the latest of 32 energy retailers to go bust since 2020. But if it wasn't so committed to its "mission" of battling injustices and saving the planet maybe it would still be a going concern, says Ben Pile.
Energy suppliers have told Ed Miliband to increase the cost of gas boilers to boost the uptake of heat pumps and EVs – because nothing says 'good product' like deliberately increasing the prices of competitors.
A visitor to the UK from Australia is worried, seeing widening social, political and economic fractures that leave the UK in danger of a cultural collapse. Hope is not lost, she says, but it is quickly draining away.
Environmental levies are set to cost a whopping £95 billion over the next five years, most of which will be loaded onto energy bills, according to the latest analysis of Rachel Reeves's Spring Statement.
Air travel will soon be the preserve of the privileged, an airline boss has admitted, as Net Zero makes low-cost air travel a thing of the past. The truth that Net Zero is making us poorer is slowly leaking out.
An interview on Radio 4 this week laid bare Ed Miliband's fantasy thinking on Net Zero. As Amol Rajan pressed the deluded Energy Secretary on how his claims are the opposite of reality, he simply dug in.
The Conservative Party has abandoned the "impossible" Net Zero 2050 target in a major U-turn, overturning a decades long cross-party consensus on tackling the 'climate emergency'.
