Brits could face an extra £20 a year on energy bills to fund unproven carbon capture technology as the Government proposes to spend £21.7 billion on projects to capture the gas from the air and store it underground.
Rather than facing the facts, Ed Miliband has this week tripled-down on what everyone else can now see are terrible mistakes in energy policy more than two decades in the making, says Ben Pile.
In Germany, taxpayers are being charged billions of euros when the sun shines under contracts that commit the Government to paying solar energy producers the difference between a generous fixed tariff and the market rate.
Keir Starmer's much-hyped International Investment Summit claimed to secure £63bn, but nearly two thirds of this is not new and much of the rest is subsidised and will only lead to higher energy bills, says David Turver.
Having the highest electricity prices in the world ought to trigger a national emergency, says David Turver. We can but hope that reality dawns on the Government before the economy collapses under the weight of Net Zero.
Massive electricity price rises are expected as National Grid confirms that gas is the only planned back-up for intermittent renewable energy, placing Britain at the mercy of global price spikes, says Chris Morrison.
British companies are paying the highest electricity prices in the developed world, official data have shown, after costs more than doubled in the past five years. The U.K. is now four times as expensive as the USA.
Thousands of offshore wind turbines are to be built off the holiday coasts of Cornwall and South Wales under Crown Estate plans to accelerate offshore turbine expansion.
Ed Miliband has just agreed to pay 58% more for renewable energy and barefacedly claimed it will lower bills. The Government's green agenda is based on lies upon lies upon lies upon lies, says Ben Pile.
Labour has set itself the mission of making Britain a "clean energy superpower" to "cut bills". But it's a lie that renewable energy will cut bills, says David Turver, and here are the graphs that prove it.
