Even the Guardian notices 'Net Zero' is expensive
Something I find depressing is the way so many perfectly well-meaning people have swallowed the deception that renewable energy is cheaper – all the way to “much cheaper” – than fossil fuels. We needn’t summarise the arguments or facts. But here’s a sad, earnest example from a ‘community energy’ project:
A staggering 13% of households in England experience energy poverty … Rising energy prices and inflation have started to affect people’s life quality, health and well-being … Fortunately, there is a way to counter energy poverty, reduce energy bills, and keep them low going forward. Renewable energy is the cheapest and cleaner option to produce electricity … The country is reducing its dependence on volatile fossil fuel markets and creating sustainable solutions for energy security. Renewable energy developments are crucial in ensuring more affordable energy for all.
*Sighs*. Not much point in having this lady directed to Prof Dieter Helm**, I guess – the fine essay to which one of our anons directed us BTL on the previous post.
Is there hope? Well, maybe: the Graun seems belatedly to be catching up with reality:
- Will Labour’s 2030 green energy goal cost more than 2035? They should come clean …costs to the consumer shouldn’t be ignored
- Starmer has discovered a tricky truth about the electric vehicles transition: there’s no gain without pain … the move to net zero won’t be cheap or simple
The first, by the redoubtable Nils Pratley, is quite punchy as far as it goes (& we may suspect he knows well that he could have gone a lot further). The second (Gaby Hinsliff) is, errr, not really in the Dieter Helm league. otta start somewhere, I suppose.
ND
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** I have often disagreed with Helm on several issues (sometimes to his face in open debate) but his summary of the issues in the first part of this is masterful
Source: http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2024/12/even-guardian-notices-net-zero-is.html
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