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Energy bills have risen again – and the usual suspects are already using it as an excuse to attack the Labour government’s clean energy policy.
From the beginning of this month (October), Ofgem’s new price cap has pushed the “typical” dual-fuel household bill up by around two per cent to £1,755 per year. That is about £35 more than before.
Predictably, the Conservatives and Reform UK have pounced, claiming Ed Miliband’s drive to deliver clean power is hammering households with higher costs.
Both parties want to scrap the UK’s net-zero target and reverse the transition to renewables.
But their claims are false – and their motives are not what they pretend.
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The false blame game
The rise in bills has nothing to do with wind or solar energy.
Ofgem’s own data show that wholesale gas prices have actually fallen slightly this quarter.
The increase comes instead from network costs, standing charges, and policy costs – the fixed charges that fund the pipes, wires and schemes built into our bills.
Yet the Conservatives and Reform are using the rise to push the fiction that renewable energy is to blame.
In truth, they are in a race – desperate to discredit the clean-energy transition before it begins delivering real savings to the public.
Once renewables start cutting prices, their fossil-fuel funders will lose leverage.
The attacks are really about keeping prices high for as long as possible, not about protecting households.
The real scandal: cowboy insulation schemes
If people want a legitimate reason to be angry about high bills, they should look not at renewables but at the failed insulation schemes we have already been forced to finance.
The last government claimed it was cutting our bills by funding home-insulation programmes through the standing charges on our energy bills.
In reality, it handed contracts to cowboy firms that botched the work and wrecked thousands of homes. Some properties were left damp, mouldy and dangerous – literal deathtraps.
The National Audit Office has found that 98 per cent of homes fitted with external wall insulation under one flagship scheme now need repair or replacement, with the total cost of the failure estimated at £165 million.
That money came from us – from the levies built into our energy bills.
It was supposed to make our homes warmer and our bills cheaper.
Instead, it funded poorly managed work with no scrutiny, leaving households to deal with unsafe homes.
Will it happen again?
Ed Miliband is arguing that clean power is the “best way to bring down bills for good” – and he’s right in principle.
Renewables are already cheaper to produce than gas, and reducing our dependence on fossil fuels is the only real route to energy security.
But with policy costs and standing charges still rising, we have every right to ask:
How do we know this money is being spent properly now?
If billions of pounds are again being channelled through schemes designed to support the energy transition, where is the oversight?
What guarantees exist that the public will not be left paying for another fiasco – or another round of “cowboy” contractors – in the years ahead?
The truth of it
The Conservatives and Reform UK are not trying to save us money; they are trying to slow down the transition to clean power.
The real threat to household finances lies in corruption, incompetence and lack of accountability – not in the pursuit of clean energy.
Until those problems are addressed, the danger is not just that the green transition will fail, but that we will be forced to pay for its failure many times over.
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Tory and Reform attack on Labour energy bill policy is a bid to keep prices high
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Energy bills have risen again – and the usual suspects are already using it as an excuse to attack the Labour government’s clean energy policy.
From the beginning of this month (October), Ofgem’s new price cap has pushed the “typical” dual-fuel household bill up by around two per cent to £1,755 per year. That is about £35 more than before.
Predictably, the Conservatives and Reform UK have pounced, claiming Ed Miliband’s drive to deliver clean power is hammering households with higher costs.
Both parties want to scrap the UK’s net-zero target and reverse the transition to renewables.
But their claims are false – and their motives are not what they pretend.
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The false blame game
The rise in bills has nothing to do with wind or solar energy.
Ofgem’s own data show that wholesale gas prices have actually fallen slightly this quarter.
The increase comes instead from network costs, standing charges, and policy costs – the fixed charges that fund the pipes, wires and schemes built into our bills.
Yet the Conservatives and Reform are using the rise to push the fiction that renewable energy is to blame.
In truth, they are in a race – desperate to discredit the clean-energy transition before it begins delivering real savings to the public.
Once renewables start cutting prices, their fossil-fuel funders will lose leverage.
The attacks are really about keeping prices high for as long as possible, not about protecting households.
The real scandal: cowboy insulation schemes
If people want a legitimate reason to be angry about high bills, they should look not at renewables but at the failed insulation schemes we have already been forced to finance.
The last government claimed it was cutting our bills by funding home-insulation programmes through the standing charges on our energy bills.
In reality, it handed contracts to cowboy firms that botched the work and wrecked thousands of homes. Some properties were left damp, mouldy and dangerous – literal deathtraps.
The National Audit Office has found that 98 per cent of homes fitted with external wall insulation under one flagship scheme now need repair or replacement, with the total cost of the failure estimated at £165 million.
That money came from us – from the levies built into our energy bills.
It was supposed to make our homes warmer and our bills cheaper.
Instead, it funded poorly managed work with no scrutiny, leaving households to deal with unsafe homes.
Will it happen again?
Ed Miliband is arguing that clean power is the “best way to bring down bills for good” – and he’s right in principle.
Renewables are already cheaper to produce than gas, and reducing our dependence on fossil fuels is the only real route to energy security.
But with policy costs and standing charges still rising, we have every right to ask:
How do we know this money is being spent properly now?
If billions of pounds are again being channelled through schemes designed to support the energy transition, where is the oversight?
What guarantees exist that the public will not be left paying for another fiasco – or another round of “cowboy” contractors – in the years ahead?
The truth of it
The Conservatives and Reform UK are not trying to save us money; they are trying to slow down the transition to clean power.
The real threat to household finances lies in corruption, incompetence and lack of accountability – not in the pursuit of clean energy.
Until those problems are addressed, the danger is not just that the green transition will fail, but that we will be forced to pay for its failure many times over.
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