net-zero, Tag

David Turver criticises the OBR for taking the Climate Change Committee’s figures at face value, pointing out that the CCC makes numerous implausible assumptions that lower the apparent cost of Net Zero.

The Net Zero facade has collapsed massively, undeniably, irreversibly – because no policy survives violations of the laws of physics and market demand...

From New York to California, state renewable electrical power dreams are collapsing. Power demands soar, while the federal government cuts funding and support for wind, solar, and grid batteries. Renewables cannot provide...

We looked at the new Spending Review, which has allocated £45.1 billion to Mad Miliband’s DESNZ to spend in the next four years. I thought I would also try to put some costings on other Government expenditure which is...

The big problem here is that successive governments have steadfastly refused to carry out any proper cost assessment whatsoever, so critics of Net Zero have no option but to make their own estimates.

"... If Powin LLC’s present business circumstances do not improve, it is currently anticipated that a layoff will occur on or before 28 July 2025 ..."

You can’t afford a heat pump, and now you won’t be able to afford gas to heat your home:

To summarise, the retail value of electricity has increased from £56 billion to £83 billion. Of this £27 billion increase, only £4 billion is due to gas.

The problem that we had in Britain on the 8th of January was we nearly just ran out of electricity. We didn’t have enough available generation to meet demand. So, fundamentally, those are the two ways that you can have...

My report sets out all of the additional costs applied to bills as a result of net zero policies which in 2023-24 amounted to over £17 billion, and are projected to increase to over £20 billion per year in 2029-30...

The language of faithful, historical conservatism makes use of these concepts – stewardship, inheritance, intergenerational obligation – and it is from these that a new liturgy of ‘Right-wing’ environmentalism is...

"... productivity ... has deluded far too many of the economics profession’s conventional thinkers."

Britain’s rush to Net Zero could leave it vulnerable to months-long blackouts, as reliance on intermittent renewables strains the grid, escalating costs and jeopardising energy security...

Perhaps the fundamental failure of Net Zero was political. Permission was never sought from taxpayers and consumers who would pay the costs and suffer the consequences of an always ill-fated enterprise. Climate goals were...

The simple fact is that the £500 million project, funded of course by government subsidies, would barely have made a dent in the black hole created by intermittent wind power.