David Turver attended the Battle of Ideas in London at the weekend and found that Net Zero is losing: it simply doesn't have the facts on its side. Cracks are appearing in the cosy green Westminster consensus.
The Big Tech companies are setting up AI data centres that will consume vast amounts of electricity – OpenAI alone wants to create seven that will consume more electricity per year than the UK. So much for Net Zero.
Having the highest electricity prices in the world ought to trigger a national emergency, says David Turver. We can but hope that reality dawns on the Government before the economy collapses under the weight of Net Zero.
Windy August has driven record green subsidies, and the signs suggest that subsidies will rise further in the winter months ahead, says David Turver.
Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband has doubled down on his commitment to expensive, intermittent forms of power. It's a strategy leading straight to deindustrialisation and impoverishment, says David Turver.
When Ed Miliband revealed he didn't have a clue how to reach Net Zero he asked National Grid to give him the answer. Its response shows that it doesn't know either and it's the blind leading the blind, says David Turver.
Is the Government giving special terms to renewable energy companies run by its cronies? It certainly looks that way, says David Turver, as one company run by a member of the House of Lords appears to break the rules.
Labour has set itself the mission of making Britain a "clean energy superpower" to "cut bills". But it's a lie that renewable energy will cut bills, says David Turver, and here are the graphs that prove it.
Ed Miliband and Chris Stark have asked National Grid for fresh advice on how to achieve Net Zero electricity by 2030. In other words, they've just admitted they have no clue what they're doing, says David Turver.
The Green Blob's incestuous network of commercial interests makes it difficult to avoid the conclusion that the Lords Science and Technology Committee's report on long-term energy storage is tainted, says David Turver.
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