So Ofgem agree it will be another £108 on bills to increase the network capacity to handle all the extra wind farms and the gas back up. They try to sweeten the pill by saying without the extra investment it would be a £188 increase, presumably because we would be paying not use wind energy during good wind times because there was insufficient grid to shift it.
Mr Miliband keeps trotting out his double lies. He says energy bills will go down with more renewables, yet all the time in recent years with more renewables they have been going up. He tells us the problem is the price of gas, when gas is just one quarter of the cost of electricity per unit of energy and when guaranteed renewable power prices for new installations are well above the typical price of gas generated electricity today.
Claire Couthino the Shadow Energy Secretary has been right to call for stopping the latest bidding round for more renewables as they are proposing much higher guaranteed prices than current average energy costs, locking us into dear energy for many more years. They should only go ahead with renewables that will reduce energy prices because they are bid at lower prices.
We need to ask how realistic are the grid plans? Can they really build all the envisaged grid by 2030 to meet their targets? Will they be able to build it for anything like the budget costs? How are they are going to overcome all the planning objections to many more pylons stringing their way across some of our best East Anglian and other landscapes?
The government is playing Russian roulette with our power supplies. The more unreliable renewables we have the more danger of power cuts when the wind and sun let us down. The more renewables the more the prices and costs go up if you add up the extra grid costs and the stand by gas power costs as well as the cost of installing and running the wind farms.
This is self inflicted misery. Realising we are fed up with rising power bills the budget is taking some of the current costs away to pay for the dearer renewables out of taxation. As most of us bill payers are also taxpayers this does not help us. It makes us angrier to have higher taxes as well as higher power bills.
December 5, 2025
Last night I think on the BBC One Show they were in the Central Contril at grid distribution NESO. The manager there said they aim to trial the grid on 100% renewables very shortly. When asked to clarify his female assistant said it will probably be in a very windy and sunny day typically at weekend when demand is low.
She didn’t for one minute believe it was going to happen but it helped the BBC push the narrative
The latest auction is capping prices at £92 for onshore, £113 for offshore and a colossal £248 for a floating Chinese monstrosity in the North Sea
Luckily the old rigs that were supposed to be decatbonised using the power from said windmills have baulked at paying such inflated prices and pulled out of the scheme.
Claire Couthino makes the right noises but is still wedded to the net stupid scam as is most of Westminster.
Only Reform have categorically said they will cancel the scam and not honour any agreement this government makes at AR7
Even at the latest jamboree COP30 it was only Britain, Canada and Australia who continued to push the net stupid narrative. Other countries think more of their voters.
Britain is the leader in a one horse race where the owner and trainer is a raving lunatic
Reply Claire Couthino opposes damaging NZ policies!
December 5, 2025
Ian, the 100% renewable electricity supply is fairy-tale stuff. Wind and solar will at times give near zero generation however much capacity we put in place. Nuclear and Drax can supply base load but cannot easily vary output. If we are in a zero renewables period we need flexible gas generation. End result = paying for twice the generation capacity required.
This model can never be efficient or cheap.
December 5, 2025
correct
and even with Elon’s model of every house having solar panels and a big battery to store energy in the garage it wont work. not that the housing stock is suitable for this anyways even if it did make sense.
December 5, 2025
The aim is just to manage it for 30 minutes without the grid falling over. I suspect someone at NESO has been promised a Damehood if they manage it. I know that after the Spanish apagon OFGEM started getting nervous about relaxing the standards for minimum inertia to let them do it. I submitted evidence to show that NESO had already been playing fast and loose with the standard they were supposed to maintain.
Inertia is important because it determines the reaction time for identifying and correcting any problems that occur with trips on generators and interconnectors or lightning strikes on the grid. They are trying to move from about 4 seconds to 2 seconds, which certainly terrifies me.
December 5, 2025
Well Claire Maths Oxon, and Kemi the Engineer are finally getting there – just about but both should have know better. May’s moronic net zero was nodded through without even a vote. But both are still on the fence really. Even Bill Gates is coming round to reality.
An excellent article by Matt Ridley in the Spectator. “The great climate climbdown is finally here”.
It concludes “ The climatastrophe has been a terrible mistake. It diverted attention from real environmental problems, cost a fortune, impoverished consumers, perpetuated indoor pollution and poverty, frightened young people into infertility, wasted years of our time, undermined democracy and corrupted science. Time to bury the parrot.”
It did not even save much CO2 and CO2 is on balance a net good anyway green the planet nicely.
December 5, 2025
export.org.uk 04/12/2025 ‘The day in trade: Farmers lose £800m in revenue due to climate change …’
envirolink.org 04/12/2025 ‘Climate crisis devastates UK agriculture as record heat and drought trigger £800m crop losses’
eciu.net 04/12/2025 ‘Summer drought costs UK arable farmers over £800m – new analysis’
But don’t worry, our own guru tells us that ‘CO2 is on balance a net good anyway green the planet nicely’. Enjoy the higher prices for food in the shops.
December 5, 2025
Less use of fertiliser made costly by energy policy doesn’t help yields.
December 5, 2025
Nor does less CO2 plant food.
December 5, 2025
Having escaped the EU Tariff Wall, our food is the least of our problems.
We will not be benefiting from your wisdom soon Hefner, the EU to seriously not have any Russian energy.
Enjoy your blackouts, pen and paper maybe, sell your computer now is my advice, it’s useless without electricity.
December 5, 2025
In 2021 Europe was getting 45% of its gas and 27% of its oil from Russia. In 2024 it was 19% for gas and 3% for oil. So only Russian shills can believe that Europe will be unable to survive without Russian gas and oil.
December 5, 2025
And for about £20 I can have a 40W/70W USB solar panel perfect to handle a laptop.
December 6, 2025
It wont work at night hefner nor very well on cloudy days.
December 6, 2025
Even on cloudy days there is diffuse solar radiation coming to the surface. Why do you think it is not pitch dark under clouds?
December 5, 2025
dont forget Cameron and his “hug a huskie” PR was spouting similar nonsense. all of the clowns in the main parties have been like nodding dogs on these issues.
December 5, 2025
+1
December 5, 2025
They are not frightening the 3rd world into infertility, even in Britain.
The 11% of the world which is Caucasian is facing extinction. Very low birth rates, massive abortion stats conducted in the U.K. until recently by the ‘Archbishop of Canterbury’ aka ‘The Chief Abortionist’.
We are the minority. Where are our minority rights?
December 5, 2025
Did you ever bother previously about other minority’s rights?
Theworlddata.com 20/11/2025 ‘Global population of white people 2025: Statistics & Facts’
11% of the planet’s population is Caucasian, but that is 56% of the US population, 70% of the Canadians, 57% of the Australians, 85% of Europeans incl. 70% of Germans, 85% of French, 83% of the UK, 93% of Italians, 88% of Spaniards, 96% of Poles, 76% of Dutch, 75% of Belgians, …
Don’t worry, you’ll be long dead before the Caucasians in your little part of the world are ‘submerged’ by the ‘foreign hordes’.
UN Population Division 2024, National statistical offices, CIA World Factbook 2024.
December 5, 2025
As this exaggerated climate emergency religion finally collapses (with even Bill Gates coming round to reality now) I do wonder when the otherwise excellent Richard Dawkins will finally let go of his Climate alarmist (the vast exaggeration of) devil gas religion! These biology chaps do often need a Prof William Happer type of physicist to explain reality to them!
December 5, 2025
100% renewables sounds like the recipe for a Spanish style blackout. Where is the grid inertia coming from? Drax will help if they insist on claiming it qualifies as renewable, but would it be enough?
December 5, 2025
Drax cannot spin up quickly. We need gas for that.
We could usefully do with a few more hydro electric schemes but they would never get through planning nowadays.
December 5, 2025
Burning wood imported forests at Drax causes more CO2 and pollution (CO2 is not really pollution but the gas of life) than burning coal. You can create grid inertia using reservoirs, batteries, weights up hills, spinning mass but coal and gas generation is invariably far cheaper and better. Or if you must by burning young coal at Drax and pretending it is “green”.
December 5, 2025
Agree ….why are we trying to fix a problem that doesn’t exist
December 5, 2025
There is also nuclear, pumped storage (which provides inertia both when pumping and generating) and the ability of batteries to provide some frequency stabilisation, plus synchronised motors mainly in industry (not so many left now).
December 5, 2025
Good morning
This is the price we pay for a greener than the greenest government ever !
The SCAM will be put to rest when the lights start to go out. Just give it time.
December 5, 2025
MB,
Your last para, I think it will be the ‘start’ of the end of the scam when the lights go out, but I am looking forward to the interviews of Millipeed when they do go out. (no doubt Starmer will have an urgent foreign trip) My guess is that the first power cut will be sometime this winter, after we’ve used up all the gas reserves and the French decide they don’t like us again and find it ‘impossible’ to transfer electricity to us. Get your standby heating and lighting ready!
December 5, 2025
They’ll just blame it on Brexit.
December 5, 2025
I agree! Listening to those in the energy business speak, we have teetered close to losing the lights a few times.
How did so many dysfunctional characters manage to get into places of high power that we are in this dire position? We are being run by mad men who just lie and lie!
December 5, 2025
Except the war on net beneficial CO2 (plant and tree food) actually makes the makes the world rather less green.
December 5, 2025
Nothing much from them on the vast net harms and costs of Covid Vaccines and Covid Lockdowns yet either. The stats. in countries where unlike the UK they are releasing them more fully are very damning indeed. South Korea, Czech Republic, Japan, USA…
December 5, 2025
do the government not realise how many tens of thousands of people they have cheesed off by forcing the removal of free hot chocolate refills from weatherspoons. its simply staggering that they have so little self reflection. I doubt it is having any health impact on any customer, many will just buy a pint instead. the opposition parties should be making a massive deal of this.
December 5, 2025
I guess they will still have chocolate sprinkles available to put on the many different types of coffee, which are a free fill up, and I hope will remain so.
December 5, 2025
ig,
Seriously? How many want multiple cups of hot chocolate?
I have not looked, but once you have the cup you could probably refill it with chocolate anyway -despite the signs to the contrary.
Getting barred from a pub for chocolate refills would be a novelty though.
December 5, 2025
this is a common subject of conversation in pubs up and down the land now, the public frustration is massive.
even if its only your gran once a week that is impacted, it cheeses off the whole family
December 5, 2025
Not a topic in my Spoons.
Though I do remember the pre lockdown days when a refillable hot drink in Spoons was half the price.
You used to see sad characters with laptops searching for a seat near a power point and spending half the day there with cheap coffee.
Also gone is standing at bar. I asked one why he was no longer at his usual spot and he said customers had to be seated. That rule is out the window too on a weekend night.
McDonald’s is also more expensive. No more vouchers in The Metro. A humble cheeseburger is £1.49. It used to be 99p. Happily I rarely use McDonalds, though on Wednesday I did so as Hackney Spoons has closed down permanently.
December 5, 2025
I assume you can still get refillable tea or coffee and then add as much sugar or milk to these as you wish to? Note too that all carbs you eat like potatoes, chips, crisps, pasta, pastry, bread, parsnips, carrots… as does fruit, apple pie, cakes… all turn to glucose in the blood very rapidly indeed – just as sugar does.
So why a war just on sugar? It is as mad as the war on CO2 – plant, tree and crop food.
December 5, 2025
Yes Coffee, Tea, and Decaf Tea are all still free refill. And yes you can add as much sugar as you want.
Yes Weatherspoons did start off with signs saying that hot chocolate was no longer free refill. But the entire country was ignoring that sign, so multiple places I have been recently they have stopped selling hot chocolate completely, no doubt in fear of the tax police coming after them.
This is sheer madness. The little old pensioner who weighs little, and the doctors are struggling to keep any weight on them at all, is being denied their one treat of the week, where in their case the sugar would actively help them.
Or the hypo diabetic who needs something sugary to stop them going into a coma has one less thing available to them quickly to sort themselves out.
Because some idiots in the woke ruling classes think they know better than individuals who know their own circumstances far better than the centre ever will.
It is sheer madness the state this country has descended into.
Abortions at full term, euthanising the old and poor, more genetically ill children of 1st cousins, stopping trial by jury, a police force more worried about naughty tweets than they are of knife crime, visas for legal immigration being printed like confetti, and illegal immigration flooding in. None of the public services work, or provide even a semblance of basic quality, and yet they are all costing us a fortune, no accountability in public sector managers who provide the worst service in the world. Jobs being destroyed here with crazy energy policies, crazy immigration policies, a state which actually hates any wealth creating that is not in financial services and imposes punitive rules which force production abroad (and net world pollution and industrial deaths up). National debt is massive and constantly going up with no end, no appetite for really turning that around, despite the lies from politicians who say otherwise. A political class who don’t understand the basic summary of the UK balance sheet. This country is going to explode, with little girls being gang raped on an industrial scale, and it is still going on… does anyone really think this is going to be tolerated? No inquiry into that because they are scared the sheer number of Labour politicians implicated in covering it up. There simply are not enough police and army to deal with what will happen when the decent majority simply refuse to play along with all this anymore. Why should we put up with it? We are being denied elections, how do the ruling classes think it is going to play out?
December 5, 2025
To be fair to Weatherspoons cocoa has been in short supply due to the Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus, and prices responded stratospherically. At the moment next year’s ctop is anticipated to be somewhat better, and so futures prices have halved from the peak. It won’t percolate to lower chocolate prices until 2027.
December 5, 2025
ig,
That’s a big jump from no free hot chocolate refills to abortions and euthanasia !
December 5, 2025
anything can be the straw that breaks the camels back now
and the rank and file cops will stop following stupid orders too, nobody supports this
December 6, 2025
It was more about protecting children’s teeth.
December 5, 2025
The idea is to prohibit little things gradually so that it becomes accepted when they try to prohibit bigger things. Nudge, nudge…
December 5, 2025
Perhaps all the lights going out, people’s TV’s/Computers and every other gadget being affected will eventually be the cure to the net zero cult.
We ration the heating, we ration the electricity we use and now because my water bill has gone up again (and we’re using less than the year before!!) we’ll be rationing the water.
It seems wages are there just to hand over to incompetent utilities companies, an incompetent and ideologically unsound government, and all we can do is look longingly at what we are paying for but dare not use.
December 5, 2025
We really do need to stop electing stupid people to Parliament. What more proof is needed other that we are paying the highest electricity bills in the developed world?
December 5, 2025
We can only vote for the stupid people stupid people put up, Most are bootlickers and don’t seem to have any particular talent.
December 5, 2025
Choose your own candidates! We always did, that why we had an Honourable House.
December 5, 2025
Here we go again. I wondered how long it would be before the fossil fuel lobby rolled out that annual old chestnut “blackouts”
It matters not that the facts contradict every point that SJR has made in todays offering. Miliband’s increase in bills is to invest in improving the grid distribution network, which the last government had 14 years to do – and failed.
These days if you try and post the facts about the reason for the high cost of energy to UK businesses (40% of which is inefficient gas generation), you get moderated.
The fossil fuel industry is dying. Renewables are now so cheap that consumers in places like Australia, Texas and Arizona are enjoying three hours a day of totally free solar electricity. But of course, this contradicts the received wisdom from the fossil fuel lobby. Don’t tell them how cheap renewables actually are, just “drill baby drill”
Reply You refuse to see the evidence that renewables are dearer and unreliable.
December 5, 2025
Sg I don’t know where you get your news but Australia fir example has some of the highest electricity prices in the world despite exporting millions of tonnes if coal to China and having large uranium reserves.
Canada has recently lifted the moratorium on drilling for oil and gas and New Zealand gas cancelled that silly woman prine Ardherns ban on exploration. Germany is reopening Lignite mines and building coal fired power stations. Ironically much of the equipment removed from UK coal fired power stations gas been shipped to Germany. Pulverisers, coal handling and conveyor systems.
As I said previously we are the front runners in a one horse race.
December 5, 2025
Do Australia, Texas and Arizona have similar weather patterns to us? Comparing apples and oranges does not improve your case. We know from experience here that it cannot work. On days when renewables produce low single figures, no amount of extra will do the job. What’s your plan for a dark cold windless day like we have had recently?
December 5, 2025
I read an article recently by a number of scientists entitled ‘We made a mistake’.
They went on to say that evidence from the artic shows that there are layers of moss which if uncovered will flourish and ‘sop up CO2’.
So it seems God has this covered. We will never have an excess of CO2, let’s hope that the efforts of man don’t create a shortage.
December 5, 2025
”fossil fuel industry is dying”
Due to government legislation and regulation …and only government legislation and regulation
December 5, 2025
Sakara G. You live in a dream world. I assume you have no understanding of physics, entropy, energy, electricity grids. The vast investment in the network is needed mainly because connecting up thousands of wind and solar networks especially off shore ones is needed to shift to renewables even more so if every one shifts to heat-pumps and stopped using gas, oil, solid fuel for winter heating, cooking and hot water. The grid might need to be ten times current capacity a vast investment, plus then vast back up and vast extra generating capacity.
Note you get virtually zero solar in the short, dark winter days and non at night. Also gas is not inefficient circa 60% conversion to electricity. What is inefficient is importing gas in ships and using gas inefficiently as back up for wind and solar!
December 5, 2025
Why do you assume? He gives us proof on a regular basis.
Purblind.
December 5, 2025
SG:
The weighted average (by installed capacity) operational CfD of offshore wind turbines is currently £149/MWhr. For the last year or more the average wholesale price of electricity has been around £70-£80/MWhr and is set by gas as the last generation to be added to the grid must be dispatchable and includes a carbon tax of around £20/MWhr. Note in addition the £149/MWhr does not include the wider system costs of grid upgrades, grid stability and storage. Those that say that renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels are like those that calculate the cost of running a car by calculating the fuel costs and omitting the costs of depreciation, maintenance, insurance, mileage charges and VED. BTW, the UK doesn’t have the same sunshine as Australia, Texas and Arizona if case you haven’t noticed and the infrastructure costs will still have to be charged at some point…If renewables are now cheaper than fossil fuels why is DESNZ/Ofgem still offering subsidies to renewables (wind & solar) for the next auction round (AR7)? Just to make our electricity even more expensive so we use less or to bump up the renewable suppliers’ profits, at least one of whom is a large Labour Party donor.
December 5, 2025
But Goldie, blackouts are being avoided while we pay outrageous inflated rates for electricity wired across the ocean from France or others…..20% of demand most of the day.
Can you not see Putin, via mapping the routes and gaining experience of ripping up the sunken cables, is preparing for the day when he can very simply sever them and create havoc in the UK?
All because we are being blinded to the pretence UK can do without fossil fuels.
December 5, 2025
John, So many politicians now seem to have lost their minds and all forms of common-sense.
Few seem to be able to think for themselves any more.
December 5, 2025
Trouble is that those who do ‘think for themselves’ come up with ludicrous experiments to try on us. Think Milliband, Osborne with his budgets which killed public services but still managed to triple the debt. We’ve had this on education, the NHS and god knows what else to get us to the state we are now in. Don’t think there ever was much common sense in the Commons in the last 30 years, just climbers who wreck things and end up in the Lords or on boards of companies they know nothing about.
December 5, 2025
A curious fact confirmed by looking at the elected MPs for Labour, very little dissent. It was true to some extent under Conservatives, but at least about 4 groups would argue constantly.
December 5, 2025
We have enabled to power marxist socialism led With messianic insanity in respect of energy and foreign affairs. Led overall by a very silly but dangerous lawyer, they are systematically destroying democracy while erroneously labelling any opposition to this political vandalism, the majority within the population, as far right extremists. Big mistake.
The answer to the subject question is local grown electrical energy in the form of SMRs placed adjacent areas of electrical need. It is technically proven, having faultlessly driven our submarines since WW2. The only problem is nimbyesque and sclerotic planning which requires sweeping aside. The positive aspect is its modular rapid consruction, and ergo cost. Until such time we should be reactivating our home based gas sources under a business plan that ensures end users get it at cost plus profit and untaxed, so ensuring that our industry and domestic end users benefit. This would be the base rebirth of profitable industry, without which the UK will continue on its path of self inflicted decline.
I read that the germans have managed to magnetically capture plasma of hydrogen atoms for up to 40 seconds. When it can be done continuously we will achieve fusion power.
Our toytown government must be riddiculed and undermined at every opportunity until they reach the point of implosion. They are a terminal danger to every british citizen, including those who voted for them.
December 5, 2025
Ed Miliband’s intentions are crazy and wasteful. He should be removed from politics to some unknown place beyond reach such as where his Edstone ended.
December 5, 2025
Bloke, are you suggesting the Edystone Light. If so highly appropriate, or am I missing some sublety through ignorance.
December 6, 2025
agricola:
The Eddystone Lighthouse performed an important safety function for mariners near Cornwall.
The EdStone was an election gimmick comprising a large piece of masonry depicting what Ed Miliband described as his election pledges, carved in stone to signify intended loyalty to their permanence. It was reported that he wanted it to be sited in the Rose Garden at Downing St if he became PM. The stone was instantly ridiculed. It became a major embarrassment for him, and was whisked away from public view; possibly ground to dust like Fred West’s house at 25 Cromwell Road, beyond existence.
December 6, 2025
The six pledges written on the stone were:
A strong economic foundation
Higher living standards for working families
An NHS with the time to care
Controls on immigration
A country where the next generation can do better than the last
Homes to buy and action on rents
NO MENTION OF NET-ZERO
December 5, 2025
I’d be supportive if Miliband said he’ll spend £20billion planting new tree’s throughout the UK …..but he’s more than likely cut down tree’s to make way for wind-turbines
December 5, 2025
Our approach to Gas and Electricity supplies is typical of Labour’s doctrinal methodology to governing. Do what they believe to be right and virtuous rather than what works.
The Conservatives were poor in this area but the Labour administration, supported by the Civil Service have ruined us on steroids
December 5, 2025
Miliband, the Eco Nutters in the Establishment and OFGEM seem determined to prove Einstein’s Theory of Insanity.
December 5, 2025
It’s not just the cost. I live in one of the most beautiful areas of England, and BP/National Grid propose building a cable corridor and several huge sub-stations which will scar the landscape for over 100 years. They will be allowed to destroy sand dunes, wildlife reserves and farmland all in the name of saving the planet. At the rate this Government is destroying our country, there will be nothing left to save by the time of the next General Election. Not that I think that will even happen. We will be dragged into WW3 by Starmer and Macron long before then.
December 5, 2025
Same here, I look out from the coast and all I see are hundreds of offshore wind-turbines …..they’ve been there for over a decade and haven’t reduced my energy bill, not even by a penny ?
December 5, 2025
Christine , no need to scar the landscape. Put the SMRs adjacent the need for power. Their destruction is far more fundamental than a few hundred ugly pylons, it is aimed at the very ethos of being British and the hundreds of years of quiet evolution that started with Magna Carta. We didn’t always get it right but on balance we did. Let this current form of anti christ burn itself out and have faith in the alternative waiting in the wings.
December 5, 2025
It is worth reviewing some of the hysterical nonsense of recent decades which has led to these policies. Bjorn lomberg has highlighted a report from 2004 which was given credence by senior govt advisers at the time, the met office etc, which forecast the UK to have Siberian winters and Europe to be inundated with rising seas within 20 years, ie now. President Bush was advised that climate change would destroy the UK and Europe. Only one report of course, but it was trumpeted by the guardian at the time (probably by the bbc also). The result of all this shrill hysteria was the unscrutinised and unopposed passage of all the climate change legislation as a result of which we now have net zero, mr milliband, and the current absurd policies.
Let us have a sensible and rarional approach to the energy transition. This should be low hanging fruit for the Conservatives without any need to “deny climate change”.
December 5, 2025
Gates has said ‘Climate change is not the end of the world’.
I believe that makes him a ‘climate denier’.
December 5, 2025
Lynn, before education posed the problem of understanding what nuance of sexual being we mighf decide we were, we were taught via meteorology, geology, ice core samples and tree rings that climate was not a fixed state. Then perhaps the last 250 years of recorded data confirmed that it tended to change. It is hardly static on a daily basis. When people fly of to the Costas they take a bet they will be greeted by sunshine and less of the clag they leave behind.
How clever of disreputable scientists to suggest that climate change was new, and of vacuous politicians, always on the lookout for levers of control, to invent nett zero for their own political ends. Never a mention of allieviating steps that might be taken to counter its effects. As those in control are largely ill or over educated idiots we have allowed them to destroy our industrial base and make us feel guilty for creating an industrial revolution that lifted much of the world from the serfdom of 300 years past.
We are in fact on the brink of creating none polluting power in the form of fusion. Of necessity we must continue with fossil and atomic fuels until that day. Do not allow the Luddites sway over the process of evolution. The real destroyers are the crap that we allow industry to feed us with and its packaging that destroys our oceans. Those are fhe satan we should be aiming at.
December 5, 2025
Starmer keeps banging on about reducing the cost of living. Given the huge tax increases to which we have been subject, it is going to have to fall a very long way before we are better off.
December 5, 2025
Glucose is after all the main energy we burn to keep ourselves alive and to power our brains, our working, walking and cycling! Does the government want to encourage walking, working and cycling while cutting down the energy we use to fuel ourselves to do these things?
December 5, 2025
“higher guaranteed prices” higher guarantees are somewhere between a cartel rigging the prices and extortion.
What it doesn’t create is and advancing competitive market place the UK needs, its nothing more than holding a nation to ransom and political manipulation. The UK is one of the most expensive places on Earth for energy, yet it is well resourced. This parliament is killing off the country with ideology, forcing greater costs than all the nations it competes for existence from. Parliament is killing the means to earn, to feed to exsist.
December 5, 2025
I get sick of saying it; Co2 is 0.04% of Earths atmosphere. The UK contributtes 1% of that 0.0004%
Have you noticed Mad Ed Milliband would always rattle on about ‘net zero’ Now he’s more likely to be heard saying ‘energy security’ Even he knows ‘net zero’ is a nonsense.
December 5, 2025
Spot On
December 5, 2025
He is further from ‘energy security’ than from ‘net zero’.
December 5, 2025
Yes – Net-0 policies are a disaster for us when it comes to energy provision at a reasonable cost, and that is just one aspect of problems caused by the biggest hoax ever implemented on UK people.
Without those higher guaranteed prices nobody would be interested in bidding. It’s a high risk, especially as Reform will likely cancel all such contracts when they eventually get in.
We’ve had some awful governments in recent times, but this one has crossed so many red lines – the sooner they fall on their sword the better for all of us.
December 5, 2025
CAGW and its “solution” Net Zero is a Trojan Horse devised to sabotage our energy, economy and national security. Table 12 in Chapter 12 of the IPCC’s Working Group 1 (“The Science”) AR6 report shows there to be no signals for climate change (droughts, precipitation and storms) other than some mild warming which UAH satellite data shows to be 0.14 degrees C per decade. Both the historical and scientific evidence is that CO2 does not control global temperature. There is no natural or indeed anthropogenic CO2 explanation for the start of the last ice age or the warming to exit just 11,000 years ago. Nor for the Roman warm period when vines were grown up by Hadrian’s Wall nor for the medieval warm period when Icelandic Norsemen colonised Greenland. Nor for the last 450,000 years, when both CO2 and temperature have been exceptionally low, when CO2 has been following temperature according to the Antarctic Vostok ice core data. Happer & Wijngaarden have demonstrated using the IPCC’s own radiative warming theory that there is already sufficient CO2 in the atmosphere to cause all the warming feasible and hence adding more CO2 makes little, if any, difference. A phenomenon known as saturation which is endorsed by The Royal Society and which is akin to adding more kitchen paper to a spill once the first few sheets have already absorbed all the liquid. An effect which also applies to the biggest greenhouse gas, water vapour. Furthermore, Tom Shula has pointed out the empirical evidence that the IPCC’s radiative theory is invalid because a Pirani gauge shows that heat loss at the planet’s surface is through convection and conduction and not through radiation.
December 5, 2025
‘Costs of £1bn a year to fund renewables projects were not outlined in the Chancellor’s Budget ‘
The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) revealed in its latest economic assessment that £1bn a year will be added to household energy bills to fund Ed Miliband’s next auction for renewables projects, known as “allocation round 7” (AR7). https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2025/12/04/billions-of-green-subsidies-missed-by-obr/#more-89726
December 5, 2025
Plus AR7a and AR8. As Coutinho pointed out in Parliament, additions to our bills to pay for arguably unnecessary and certainly uneconomic grid expansions are not things we are being asked to fo. We’re being forced to do them by those in charge (in this case, OFGEM and NESO).
December 5, 2025
The perma lie told by the climate Alarmists that renewable energy is the least cost energy option, is easily shown to be a complete fabrication and down right lie.
Those countries that retained reliable energy generation from coal and gas that run 24/7 regardless of what the weather is doing, all have lower cost electricity than we do.
If the renewable generation fleet was going to give us lower priced electricity, then it would have done so many years ago….it has done the exact opposite.
Last year when we closed permanently the last coal fired power plant at Ratcliff on Soar Nottinghamshire, the Chinese government signed off 12 new coal plants that collectively had more generating capacity than our entire demand!!
The much touted Ed Miliband clean energy trope that we must be seen as an example to the world and the world will then follow our example, is about as far from rational thought as it gets. He now wants to bill us for £108 billion to build out more pylons to carry ever more intermittent energy from far flung parts of the country to where it is to be used. This is on top of his £22billion needed to initiate carbon capture which translates as a grant aid to DRAX when they stop burning wood pellets sourced from North America and transform to burning gas or even coal via carbon capture.
BP this week confirmed they won’t be progressing Blue Hydrogen which is a carbon capture version of hydrogen produced from Natural Gas. BP have realised, there is no future in looking to government grants for finance and have returned to the old tried and tested option of making profit.
Ed is a slow learner, but even he must be realising the game is up for renewable energy hype.
December 5, 2025
The UK energy policy is complete nonsense. Miliband is trying to solve a problem that does not exist. Until our MPs wake up and do some simple research, the mad belief in Net Zero will continue. The Earth has warmed and cooled for thousands of years, absolutely nothing to do with CO2.
You noted that Clare Countino is against Net Zero policies. That is a waste of time. Until she realises that Global Warming/ Climate Change/ Net Zero are all complete nonsense, the UK will never cut energy costs.
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
O/T – I note Rachel Reeves has not yet resigned or been sacked. The media, especially the BBC, are taking very little notice. If a Conservative Chancellor had lied as Reeves has done, the media would be screaming nonstop.
O/T – 2. Well done, Nigel Farage, for pointing out that the BBC should apologise for past shows.
December 5, 2025
Society is much healthier when it can mock and satirise itself and its environment. That prevents dangerous excursions to extremism. John Cleese goose stepping and saying “Don’t mention the War!” In Fawlty Towers is a classic example of that.
If the BBC had prominently reprised the Goon Show episode that gave us the phrase “the dreaded Lurgi” we would have been saved many of the disasters of covid – all presciently satirised.
December 5, 2025
As others have said the crunch point is Wintertime in the UK. Incidentally, the Wintertime weather in Australia is such that it is Daytime use of Air-conditioning that is required and with the sunnier climate there, solar panels can provide the necessary power. So for Australia solar power does make sense. However it does not for the UK where it is Wintertime heating that is required at night when, surprise, surprise, there is no sun.
December 5, 2025
This is Russian roulette with a bullet in every chamber.
Van der Leyen has confirmed that ALL Russian energy will be removed from European energy.
Meanwhile Putin, personally and the US envoys spent 5 hours in meetings yesterday.
Obviously they are not talking about Ukraine.
Europe with the U.K. under it’s heel is being left far behind.
December 5, 2025
just written to the NHS querying why a relative is no longer on some of their waiting lists… seems the NHS waiting lists being down is simply due to the managers making people disappear from the lists without ever being seen…
public sector at its worst
December 5, 2025
This is AI logic. Achieve the objective. Facts irrelevant.
December 5, 2025
Oh they do even worse than that. Look at the dire Covid “Vaccines” stats. the blood contamination scandal, the 15 absurd convictions of Lucy Letby with two appeals appallingly denied, the record of maternity care in the UK…
December 5, 2025
Granting OFGEM the role of Net Zero Delivery Body, and NESO the role of energy system planner for DESNZ and the CCC under the control of Miliband as sole member under the 2023 Energy Act has been a disaster. There is no proper independent scrutiny of the plans they are making and investments they are authorising.
We should see the detailed assumptions they are making, both for physical supply/demand and costings and market values, and there should be alternative plans produced by a different group, based on their best estimates for using gas, low cost nuclear and even High Efficiency Low Emissions (HELE) coal. Plans should also identify strategic risk and dependence/diversification particularly related to China.
December 5, 2025
I have been doing some preliminary analysis using the half hourly data on wind curtailment in 2024, which totalled some 8.3TWh, ir an average of almost 1GW. The volumes vary hugely, up to a peak of 7GW, and are very intermittent.
I found if you wanted to covert it to a steady baseload supply for a hydrogen electrolyser or data centre you would need 1.4TWh of pumped or battery storage, which would have started the year full. We currently have around 40GWh, or about 3% of that.
Using the economics of the proposed EGL2 link from Scotland, you might justify 1.4GW of link, provided that the value of the surplus isn’t eroded. You would still have 3.2GW of curtailment. As surpluses build and their value falls the ratio of justifiable link to surplus will also fall. That is enough to suggest that the new plans are very shakey and should not go ahead.
December 5, 2025
I got an intended joke sent to me today, which isn’t funny at all.
URGENT APPEAL
This Christmas we are asking people on benefits to donate £100 per week to help the working families across the UK.