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.
Windy August has driven record green subsidies, and the signs suggest that subsidies will rise further in the winter months ahead, says David Turver.
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.
Ed Miliband rhetorically bounced around the podium like a geek who'd missed his meds. But as the fabled 'green jobs' evaporate in the face of China's coal-driven industry, the unions are growing restive, says Ben Pile.
As if Hull didn't have enough problems, eco-obsessed Cold Play have announced their only U.K. tour dates outside London will take place there. Observers are baffled, but Roger Watson thinks he knows why: wind turbines.
Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband has doubled down on his commitment to expensive, intermittent forms of power. It's a strategy leading straight to deindustrialisation and impoverishment, says David Turver.
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.
Is the Government giving special terms to renewable energy companies run by its cronies? It certainly looks that way, says David Turver, as one company run by a member of the House of Lords appears to break the rules.
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.
