The Net Zero Consensus Is Breaking Down in Britain 

While the UK economy and electricity grid creak under the strain, leaders plough on with unworkable renewable energy priorities to the detriment of all and sundry — apart from the heavily subsidised providers of course. No effect on the climate or temperatures will happen as a result of UK net zero actions. Finally some serious political opposition is being mounted, led by the Reform party with the Tories now joining the chorus.
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[Summary]
— The UK’s 2019 Net Zero law, once universally praised, is now blamed for high energy costs, industrial closures, and grid inefficiencies.
— Conservatives have vowed to scrap the 2050 target, while even Labour faces union pressure to roll back on ambitious climate commitments.
— Britain’s energy crisis highlights a paradox: subsidising idle wind farms, losing industry to the U.S., and underusing North Sea resources while energy demand surges.
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Once upon a time the promise of Net Zero enjoyed such universal support that a Tory government signed the UK’s Net Zero pledge into law. says City AM (via OilPrice.com).

Today, the Tories say they’d scrap it – while alarm bells are ringing as the costs of the policy become clearer.
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The UK has the highest cost of energy in the developed world – for households and businesses – and we’ve been putting wind farms faster than our energy infrastructure can handle them – leading to a situation where we – taxpayers, bill payers – will pay £1bn this year to wind farm operators to turn off those wind farms when it’s too windy.

We’ve put the cart before the horse
Vast sums are then spent on replacement gas power to keep the lights on. And that’s almost certainly imported gas, by the way, as we’ve rather gone off producing our own.

It’s a problem known as ‘curtailment’ – too much wind produces too much power and it would overwhelm the congested network and so they’re simply switched off.

The National Energy System Operator, which runs the grid, says the cost of this – the constraint cost – could surge to £8bn a year by 2030.
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Miliband policies “a disaster”
Sharon Graham, boss of the Unite union, has called for Miliband to be sacked, labelling his Net Zero plan “a disaster” and accusing him of being “completely irresponsible” with the UK’s energy security and jobs in the oil and gas sector. And she’s right.

Oil refineries are closing. Chemicals plants are closing. And the promised green jobs boom is felt more in consultancy and the civil service than in any factory.

Full article here.