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 of £258m tell a different story. We're witnessing the dying embers of Net Zero propaganda open.substack.com/pub/davidtur...
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?
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MPs failure to back more North Sea drilling in the face of the worst ever energy disruption is tantamount to treason.
MPs Put Net Zero Above Energy Security
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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 hiding persistent losses.
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New article. The UK's headlong rush to Net Zero is sending us down the road to serfdom.
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Shuffling energy costs from bills to general taxation is just an elaborate shell game that cannot hide the real costs of renewables.
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Electricity productivity has halved since 2005. Intermittent renewables are driving us over the energy cliff.
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We spent more on CfD subsidies in January 2026 than any other January. Higher subsidies on the way in February because gas and carbon prices have fallen.
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AR7a Results Expose Government Lies.
Government departments, ministers and agencies are not telling the truth about the cost of renewables and Net Zero.
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One failed turbine at Scroby Sands exposes the scale of the costs of decommissioning offshore wind farms. And there’s precious little cash being set aside to cover the costs.
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One failed turbine at Scroby Sands exposes the scale of the costs of decommissioning offshore wind farms. And there’s precious little cash being set aside to cover the costs.
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FiT the Bill. Cost of electricity from Feed-in-Tariff scheme is up, even though the over all cost of the scheme has fallen slightly.
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If NESO cannot produce a complete set of energy scenarios and we can't rely on their numbers, then what is the point of NESO?
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Another record year for CfD subsidies in 2025, with a record £2.6bn paid out to renewables generators. Where does all the money go?
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Yes, to a certain extent. But the Net Zero cure is worse than the Climate Change disease.
AR7 Results Show Miliband, NESO and CCC are Gaslighting the Nation
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The CCC report is nonsense. OBR said £800bn, most of which was loss of fuel duty
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Which of these NESO numbers is wrong?
These are all NESO numbers. Nothing untrue at all.
Even their Falling Behind scenario includes spending hundreds of billions of £'s on renewables. They didn't produce a 'Do Nothing More' option.
The CCC reports are even worse, with fantasy assumptions on costs
No, neither I nor NESO assumed that fossil fuels or petrol cars are free. I went to great lengths to explain why NESO cost estimates are too low. They underestimate the cost of renewables and overestimate the cost of gas-fired electricity by making up high carbon costs.
Carbon Costs Driving Up Electricity Prices
Gas prices have fallen in recent months, but electricity prices haven't. It's not just renewables subsidies pushing up electricity bills, time to take a look at carbon costs.
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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.
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New article up this morning. A review of the year through the lens of panto. Featuring Widow Twankey Ed Miliband and the ursine polyamorous throuple running the Green Party
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Recent data from the Government for 1st half of 2025 shows we still have the most expensive industrial electricity prices and close to the most expensive domestic electricity, despite gas-prices being competitive in Europe.
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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.
NESO Blows the Doors Off Net Zero
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