A fresh Net Zero Watch report makes more grim reading for Britons, predicting that Red Ed’s green policies will add at least £25 billion per year to the cost of the electricity system by 2030. Increasing the cost of living for each household by over £900…
The report outlines how Miliband’s plans will hike electricity costs across the board, with power generation, capacity levies, and grid balancing all set to soar. In delivering the electricity demand predicted for 2030, the electricity system in the Clean Power 2030 plan will cost £58.9 billion per year, whereas the current system would only cost £34.1 billion. Net Zero Watch’s and former head of economics at Edinburgh University Professor Hughes points the finger at Miliband, warning:
“While Mr Miliband’s department have resolutely refused to put a cost on the Net Zero grid, it is vital that we understand the direction he is taking us. The plan is clearly unaffordable.”
Meanwhile, Miliband has been tipped to face the sack in a rumoured Spring reshuffle as Starmer is expected to focus on ‘growth’ over going green, with a source telling the Express, “The Net Zero agenda has been subsumed by the need to boost the floundering economy and the new world order in Washington.” This latest report is just one of many proving that Ed’s promise that “Net Zero and growth go hand in hand” doesn’t actually hold up…
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