An annual assessment of the UK’s gas security by the independent National Energy System Operator warns of an emerging critical risk to Britain’s gas supply. Thanks Miliband…
The report, due to be released later today, has “identified an emerging risk to gas supply security where decarbonisation is slowest or in the unlikely event of the loss of the single largest piece of gas infrastructure on the system.” NESO predicts that severe cold weather for 11 days combined with the failure of the UK’s “single largest piece” of gas infrastructure would result in an unbridgeable gap between demand and gas supply. Shutdown point – factories, power stations, and homes…
As it happens Britain is still reliant on gas. NESO says it has observed a “rapid decline” in gas fields and decarbonisation will not unilaterally fix the problem. It has suggested ministers construct new storage facilities, LNG terminals, or onshore pipelines to mitigate an inbound crisis. The government has launched a consultation in response. Co-conspirators can decide for themselves whether Miliband will get the wake-up call…
A DESNZ spokesperson said:
“Gas will continue to play a key role in our energy system as we transition to clean, more secure, homegrown energy. This report sets out clearly that decarbonisation is the best route to energy security – helping us reduce demand for gas while getting us off the rollercoaster of volatile fossil fuel markets. We are working with industry to ensure the gas system is fit for the future, including maintaining security of supply – which is paramount.”
A new report from Policy Exchange warns that unless the government rips up planning rules to fast track new nuclear power plants, Britain faces energy shortages which will cause household bills to skyrocket. Not quite the sunlit uplands promised by Miliband in the run-up to the election…
The report, backed by ex-Cabinet Secretary Simon Case, argues that the closure of a third of the UK’s gas fleet by 2030 will gut tens of gigawatts of reliable energy supply just as demand soars. Case writes:
“Policy Exchange’s new report demonstrates that the UK is barrelling toward an energy crisis – and an urgent change in policy is needed to stop costs continuing to rise, and to secure our energy security as a nation. To do otherwise is to risk energy shortages.
“The need to put nuclear enterprise at the heart of government reform is why I will be chairing Policy Exchange’s new Nuclear Enterprise Commission, where international experts will come together to work out the best way forward.”
Electricity bills are already ticking up. Time to get spades in the ground…
Read the full report here.
By building small modular reactors on the site of the old large Wylfa nuclear power station on the island of Anglesey Miliband is essentially ruling out the construction of a new large nuclear plant for generations. That was a highly rare viable site…
The Americans wanted to build a large reactor at the site and are fuming at the decision. Ed Miliband has done an ASMR video to boast about this. Future PM, anyone?
Ed Miliband has insisted he isn’t angling for the top job if Keir Starmer resigns. Speaking on the Today programme, Miliband gave Starmer his backing and claimed he’d already had his leadership ambitions flushed out by his last attempt:
“No, no, no… I support Keir. But I’ve had the, if you like, the inoculation technique against wanting to be Leader of the Labour Party because I was the Leader of the Labour Party, and that was a very successful inoculation.”
He also called for the sacking of those responsible for starting yesterday’s No10 briefing war. He must’ve been furious when his allies were blamed for starting the last anti-Starmer briefing war, then…
A write-to-your-MP campaign has been launched today by cheap energy enthusiasts at Net Zero Watch. The wonks are mounting an effort against Auction Round 7 in the UK’s Contracts for Difference scheme. Low carbon energy providers are bidding for government contracts with guaranteed multi-year strike prices – a massive subsidy system for Miliband’s 95% clean power policy. The strike prices are raising the cost of energy…
The campaigners have made a tool to write to MPs as part of the new effort. AR7 is due to publish strike prices imminently….
Ed Miliband has over the course of a year emitted more carbon dioxide from flights than an average Brit does in 35 years. Hot air merchant…
According to Environmental Information Regulations set out in 2004 ministerial plane travel needs to have its carbon footprint tracked by civil servants. Miliband’s total tab is a whopper…
Guido’s FoI Unit has uncovered that over 15 trips from August 2024 to June 2025 – including domestic flights – Miliband emitted 31.03 tonnes CO2 equivalent. 49,952 miles covered…
Miliband’s most gaseous single trip was in March from London Heathrow to Doha to Beijing Daxing: 7,079 miles and 6.53 tonnes CO₂e. Considering 2024’s total UK international aviation emissions were around 36 million tonnes, produced by roughly 40 million passengers, that works out to about 0.9 tonnes CO₂ per UK resident per year for flights. Multiply that by 34.5 and you get Miliband’s figure so far…
Read the full list, gathered by DESNZ officials, below:
Red Wall Labour backbencher Jonathan Brash told GB News that Starmer should resign:
“I’m completely fed up about it, and I think it’s got to the point now where I genuinely think that, as far as the Prime Minister is concerned, it’s not a case of if, it’s when.”