Yesterday, @EnergyUKcomms caught a bad case of Net Zero Derangement Syndrome by claiming that removing carbon taxes will increase bills. A thread (1/n) They first claimed that decarbonisation and economic growth go hand-in-hand. But data from OWID shows that faster decarbonisation leads to slower growth (2/n)

The Government said they reduced the indexation rate for renewables because they'd been over-compensated. That's not even half the story.
New analysis shows wind farms have already received more in subsidy than the build cost, enriching overseas investors. A thread (1/n) Starting with the six offshore wind farms that have received most subsidies under the ROC scheme: Greater Gabbard, Gwynt y Mor, London Array, Race Bank, Sheringham Shoal and West of Duddon Sands (WODS). (2/n)

🚨UK Net Zero & energy subsidies have exploded to £585 BILLION 🚨

Our taxes funding unreliable renewables, backups, carbon capture & subsidies to use the expensive energy. A new update to the Subsidy Control Database exposes the scale of the madness. (1/11) Breakdown of the insanity:
- Renewables Obligation (ROCs): £104bn
- Contracts for Difference (CfDs): £102bn inc. £40bn for AR7
- £31bn for FiTs

In total over £260bn to subsidise renewables that don’t produce when we need it most, or FIVE Hinkley Point C’s (2/11)

Ember, the people who came up with Miliband's promise to cut bills by £300 have been torturing the data to claim renewables saved money in March. Record CfD subsidies for March of £258m tell a different story. We're witnessing the dying embers of Net Zero propaganda (1/n) It's true that gas prices spiked in March at the opening of hostilities with Iran, and electricity prices rose too (2/n)

Net zero advocates love to claim renewables are cheaper than gas by waving around Levelised Cost of Energy (LCOE) models from Lazard, IRENA, and the UK Government’s Generation Cost 2025 report. But these models are junk. Here’s why. (1/19) LCOE sums up all capital and operating costs over a plant’s lifetime, discounts them, and divides by total electricity generated. Result: £/MWh or p/kWh in a chart like Lazard's below. Sounds scientific… until you look closer. (2/19)

We're facing an energy crisis that is going to require radical solutions to solve. Many countries are ramping up coal-fired electricity generation in response. Is it time for the UK to go for Coal not Cold? A thread (1/n) Looking first at UK coal reserves and resources. Euracoal has estimated we're sitting on 3,560 million tonnes of hard coal resources & 1,000Mt of lignite. Plus 277Mt of economically recoverable hard coal reserves. Plenty to go at (2/n)

In a vote tantamount to treason, Parliament decided 297-108 to put Net Zero ideology above Britain's energy security. MPs rejected a Tory motion to scrap the Energy Profits Levy, lift the ban on new North Sea licences & approve the Rosebank & Jackdaw fields. A thread (1/15) Not a single Labour, Liberal Democrat, SNP, Reform or Restore Britain MP voted in favour. This decision came at a dangerous time – amid a the largest ever energy shock triggered by the war in Iran. (2/15)

The CCC recently dropped a supplementary analysis of their 7th Carbon Budget, doubling down on past errors. They claim Net Zero costs less than the 2022 fossil fuel price spike & delivers a "net benefit" to society. Let's dismantle the ivory tower claptrap. A thread (1/13) They also claim achieving Net Zero is “more cost-effective” than continued reliance on fossil fuels in all scenarios (2/13)

New deep dive: "Octopus Smoke and Mirrors" exposes what's really going on behind the hype at Octopus, the UK's biggest energy supplier. Spoiler: a lot of valuation puffery, restated accounts and marketing flim-flam. A thread (1/10) Recap: Last year I asked if we'd hit "Peak Pink Octopus" after news of spinning off Kraken (their tech platform) at £10bn, valuing the whole group at £15bn. It smelled like hype before a sale which was borne out by the actual valuation of ~£6.7bn. (2/10)

https://x.com/7Kiwi/status/1949387045195088176?s=20

🚨New article alert: "Net Zero is the Road to Serfdom" – UK’s rush to Net Zero is futile virtue signalling, hiking energy costs, and tanking the economy. Inspired by Hayek's warnings on central planning, we’re on the Road to Serfdom. A thread (1/11) #NetZero #UKEnergy Labour MPs boast about "secure" renewables & wind power, while Starmer signs us up to stricter EU Net Zero rules. But govt control of energy is leading to energy austerity & poor economic performance. How far down the road to serfdom are we? (2/11)

https://x.com/TrisOsborneMP/status/2017624756644716962?s=20

There's a lot going on today, but nevertheless it's important to understand what happened in the latest Ofgem price cap. Labour's fairground shell game of shuffling of subsidy costs cannot hide the increasing costs of renewables. A thread 🧵(1/n) First up, Labour promised a £300 cut in bills at the election. They also claimed they would reduce bills by £150 in April, but the reality is a reduction of just £117. So both Labour's promises were lies (2/n)

The productivity of the electricity generation sector has halved since generation peaked in 2005. Renewables are dragging us over the energy cliff. A thread (1/n) Over the past few weeks the government has released the results of the AR7 and AR7a renewables auctions and celebrated the creation of up to 17,000 jobs. But more jobs in electricity generation is not a goodie thing - akin to digging holes and filling them in again (2/n)

The results of the AR7a renewables auction expose government lies about the cost of renewables and net zero. A thread 🧵(1/n) (link to full article in bio) AR7a awarded contracts for 4.9GW of new solar at a clearing price of £68/MWh (in 2025 prices), 1.3GW of onshore wind at £75/MWh and a further 21MW of tidal stream capacity. (2/n)

One failed turbine at Scroby Sands exposes the scale of the cost of decommissioning offshore wind farms. And there’s precious little cash being set aside to cover it. A thread (1/n) Scroby Sands is a relatively small 60MW offshore windfarm. In 2023 one of the 30 turbines caught fire and owner RWE has decided to decommission that single turbine (2/n)

The data is in, so now we know how much the Feed-in-Tariff (FiT) scheme cost us in 2024/25. A thread 🧵(1/n) First, overall generation under the scheme was down on the year at just under 8TWh. It is beginning to look like a downtrend has been in place since 2020/21 (2/n)

If NESO cannot produce a complete set of energy scenarios and we can't rely on the costs, then what is the point of NESO. A thread (1/n) Many green blobbers have got very huffy about my report for the IEA looking into the various estimates of the cost of Net Zero (2/n)
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Another record year for CfD subsidies with £2.6bn paid out to renewables generators. Where does all the money go? A thread 🧵(1/n) 2025 was a record year, with £2.6bn paid out, up from £2.4bn in 2024. Offshore wind took the lion's share of over £2bn, with tree-burning taking £428m, dedicated biomass £118m. Onshore wind took 67m and solar £0.1m. (2/n)

Yesterday's AR7 results show that Miliband, NESO and the CCC are gaslighting the nation. AR7 is locking in index-linked high electricity prices for decades. A thread 🧵(1/n) So, what happened? A total of 8.4GW of offshore wind was awarded contracts. Of this 8.2GW was fixed-bottom at an average of £91/MWh in 2024 prices, with 0.2GW of floating at £216/MWh. But these prices show the price of offshore wind is rising (2/n)

Alastair and Rory caught telling porkies about solar power while shilling for lossmaking Fuse Energy. When facts and truth are ignored, The Rest is Propaganda. A thread 🧵 (1/n) The central claim of their clip was that solar is a “very cheap and affordable way to generate electricity”. But in the UK at least, that claim is manifestly untrue. Solar is in fact very expensive (2/n)

https://x.com/RestIsPolitics/status/2002035470943854731?s=20

It's the end of the year, so time to to take a light-hearted view of the past 12 months of our energy policy pantomime. A thread (1/n) As it's Christmas, the season of goodwill, we should begin with the Prince Charming, Snow White and Cinderella of energy policy, namely Richard Tice, Kemi Badenoch and Claire Coutinho who together have collapsed the cosy consensus supporting Net Zero (2/n)

With its new economic annex setting out the costs, NESO has inadvertently blown the doors off Net Zero. And even then, the costs of action are understated and the costs of stopping the race to Net Zero overstated. A thread 🧵(1/n) The press reported that NESO's Holistic Transition to Net Zero would cost £350bn more than Falling Behind. The used this chart as evidence (2/n)