By Paul Homewood
h/t Ian Cunningham
From the Telegraph::
Ed Miliband has failed to make any progress on cutting household power bills, the Climate Change Committee (CCC) has warned.
The quango said in a damning new report that the Energy Secretary has not done enough to remove net zero levies from bills, which is making electricity too expensive.
This failure means the UK remains at risk of missing its 2030 clean power target, it said, as inflated energy costs deter consumers from switching to electric cars and heat pumps.
Its research found that green levies are adding £500 to heat pump running costs each year.
“The Government has made no clear progress on removing policy costs since the election,” the report said. “Making electricity cheaper remains our first recommendation.”
As part of its latest recommendations, the committee also called on ministers to curb emissions from Britain’s aviation sector and ban all new homes from connecting to the gas network.
“By far the most important recommendation we have for the Government is to reduce the cost of electricity, both for households and for businesses and industry as well,” said Professor Piers Forster, CCC chair.
“If we want the country to benefit from the transition to electrification, we have to see it reflected in the utility bills, and that is our biggest recommendation – one that we have yet to see this Government deliver.”
Don’t these numpties realise that the only reason our electricity prices are so high is because they are loaded with £20 billion of subsidies for renewables every year. The very consequence, therefore, of the CCC’s own policy advice since the very start.
I don’t know where the Telegraph gets its “adding £500 to heat pump running costs” from. The CCC report does not mention that figure. If true, it would suggest running costs of about £2000 a year, double that of a gas boiler.
In any event, the idea that people would rush out and buy heat pumps if electricity prices were slightly lower is nonsense. If a bung of £7500 is not enough, I can’t see how a couple of hundred quid a year will make the slightest difference.
Yet again, we find these ec0-zealots in the CCC live in their own little dream world. They believe we all have ten grand plus to waste on heat pumps, and another ten grand for an EV.
It is time this bunch of crackpots was defunded. The law may demand we have the CCC, but there is no law that says we have to fund it.
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Author: Paul Homewood
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