Tomos Davies, a SpAd who advised the government on green energy, is in hot water after getting a job with the Cardiff lobbying firm Deryn less than a year after he left his government job. Spin merchants Deryn, a firm which has a hand in far too many Welsh government lobbying scandals, employed the former Special Adviser from the Wales Office.

Until recently Tomos Davies was advising UK Government Ministers on policy issues, including the proposal to a build tidal lagoon off the coast at Swansea. Plaid Cymru Assembly Member Neil McEvoy has complained to the Cabinet secretary, Jeremy Heywood, that he is in breach of the rules governing SpAd employment. Davies, he complains, jumped straight into lobbying work and failed to get Civil Service clearance to work for the firm.

McEvoy cites Davies’ ConservativeHome article praising tidal power as evidence of lobbying on behalf of one of Deryn’s clients in breach of the rules, especially as one of Deryn’s clients is trying to build a tidal lagoon off Swansea. In it Tomos claimed, without irony, that “the unit cost of power from the project can, at a manageably small scale, match that of Hinkley”. Hinkley’s energy costs are among the most expensive in the world. Guido thinks Tomos Davies might be left high and dry…

The married couple behind the £1 billion Swansea Lagoon tidal power scheme are professional subsidy scroungers who specialise in draining the government’s green cash coffers. An investigation by the Sun has revealed the full extent of Mark Shorrock and Juliet Davenport’s eco-troughing.

Juliet has been in the game a long time, working on carbon taxes for the European Parliament before setting up “Good Energy” which buys renewable energy and sells it onto eco-concious customers at premium rates. Mark has spent the past decade getting consent for 30 subsidised wind and solar farms, while spending his free time setting up various green investment vehicles.

Last year Juliet’s Good Energy bought 10% of the projected power from the Swansea lagoon for a £500,000 investment in its owners Tidal Lagoon Power. Mark happens to be the CEO of  Tidal Lagoon Power. So the tax-payer will pay them to produce the energy, then they will be able to sell it on at a premium rate…

They have plans for 4 more lagoons. Of course they do…

Amber Rudd has made her first big decision as Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, granting planning consent to build the world’s first tidal lagoon in Swansea that “could” generate around 500GWh per year.

Constructing the lagoon will entail building a six mile sea wall, complete with 16 underwater turbines around Swansea Bay.

The project will cost around £1 billion and the developers are asking for £168 tax payer subsidy for every MWh they produce. The current market price is around £41 MWh…