Sunday Times Business section

[The Solar King]

There have been statements that subsidies for solar and wind are not up for review.

The irony is cutting the green levies will do exactly the opposite of saving money on energy bills. The only way to reduce costs is to use less. Energy costs more in much of continental Europe but household bills are lower because they have had good building regs on energy efficiency for a long time. We have had shoddy ones at the behest of the shoddy mass builders who want to throw up cheap and nasty boxes at huge profit.

with no incentives to improve energy efficiency, things will get worse despite all the political blustering.

 

[MCS Renewables]

Same issues in Germany

Germany?s ?green energy revolution? costing billions ? RT Business

 

[Gavin A]

meantime the clean up costs for nuclear in the UK just went up by another £5 billion, yet I must have missed the anguished daily mail / torygraph articles calling for an end to this costly nuclear fiasco.

Pretty much the only item of spending that has actually been allowed to increase significantly in this parliament is the clean up budget for nuclear, which now accounts for something like half of DECC's entire budget.