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 tax 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
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.