The Climate Change Committee has just released its 2024 report and its full of contradictions, reports David Turver. Reducing our reliance on oil and gas and making electricity cheaper are incompatible policy objectives.
David Turver casts a critical eye over the new crop of ministers at the Department of Energy and Net Zero, revealing a batch of public sector lifers with no commercial savvy and zero energy know-how.
So much for Labour's pledge to cut energy bills by £300, says David Turver. Under GB Energy, our bills can only go one way, and that is up.
Bizarre and unrealistic, the National Grid's Future Energy Scenarios report is a wild jumble of impractical ideas and unfeasible technologies, says David Turver.
The Economist predicts that the "exponential growth of solar power will change the world". But this fails to reckon with the scarcity of silver, which is being used up faster than it can be mined, says David Turver.
Net Zero is a high-cost mitigation strategy that can't possibly be better than adaptation, says David Turver – not least because manmade CO2 is clearly not the climate's main control knob.
Labour Shadow Minister Ed Miliband claims Net Zero 2030 will cut energy bills, citing a Policy Exchange report. David Turver shows that the report has missed hundreds of billions of pounds of costs and is junk.
The Guardian has removed an article claiming that renewables are cheap following a complaint as the advertising watchdog ASA signals that false claims will not be tolerated.
Labour's energy policy just doesn't stack up, says David Turver. Better for Keir Starmer to take his Great British Energy plans, and its logo, to a darkened room with a bottle of whisky and a revolver.
Renewables are not cheap and are never going to be, says David Turver. With over £12 billion being paid in subsidies to or because of renewables each year, the claim that renewable will save us money is a myth.
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