We CHOOSE to have expensive energy

We CHOOSE to add £17bn per year to bills through taxes such as the Climate Change Levy and by recovering the cost of subsidies through bills rather than taxation

https://twitter.com/Malcolm_Offord/status/1908417093915095107

@Keir_Starmer CHOSE to increase catbon costs overnight by £10 /t by saying he would harmonise UK and EU carbon prices. They will go up another £12 /t if he succeeds

This additional cost is added to the price of all the gas used to generate electricity and in industry

I was at an event yesterday where Dan McGrail @RenewableUKCEO gave one of the most dishonest speeches I've heard on renewables

He said auction prices fell to £40 /MWh He did not mention that was £2012 or that the most recent strike was £83 /MWh in £2025 which is HIGHER than the current Day Ahead wholesale power price

He also spoke about working at Siemens and waxed lyrical about larger turbines and engineering prowess

This article from @NewStatesman explains why renewables are not cheap:

"There are those who argue that the route to lower energy prices is to abandon fossil fuels and embrace renewables, pointing out that the marginal costs of renewables are much lower than fossil fuels... ... But as Oxford professor @Dieter_Helm (no climate change denier by any means) has pointed out, what really matters is the systems cost. Intermittent renewables, such as solar and especially wind, require back-up options and the cost of these need to be included...

Today @NetZeroWatch published a new report I have written on the risks of #blackouts in the GB power grid

The near miss on 8 January was a warning of what's to come. It came earlier than I expected - my view has long been that the risks crystallise in Winter 2027... ...as the next of the AGR closures hit, along with likely gas retirements as the fleet ages and uncertainty over the futures of Drax and Lynemouth as their CfDs expire

This report sets out the risks we face as the Government pushes forward with its Clean Power 2030 plan...

Yesterday the GB power market came within 580 MW of demand control or a blackout on what was the tightest day since 2011 or before

@neso_energy issued its first Electricity Market Notice of the winter and third (quickly cancelled) Capacity Market Notice Although the EMN was eventually cancelled, forecasting errors meant the out-turn spare margin was just 580 MW!

This is much lower than the single largest infeed loss which is supposed to be protected