A ridiculous political fudge that tells me that the Conservative Party are still more focused on conning people than on solving problems. This plan comes nowhere close to producing “cheap energy” and the claim that it would is entirely false.
The notion the cutting systems costs by 20% by 2040 is going to create cheap energy is complete nonsense.If this plan succeeded on its own terms electricity would still be 3 to 4 times the cost of US electricity.
Cheap energy would be cutting the costs paid by the consumer by 65% or more within 5 years; that is an achievable goal from an engineering perspective. Using the target of "systems costs" and not end user cost reductions reveals the lies that eviscerate any notion that this will produce cheap electricity.
The tell-tale giveaways that this plan is either cognitive dissonance run wild, or a politically constructed lie come with at least three clangers:
1) The notion that lowering the cost electricity would see people lining up to buy EV’s and heat pumps is nonsense. It’s not the operating cost, it’s the combination of the purchase price and the fact that they don’t do the job they are intended for very well; e.g. to keep you warm or to move you around at low cost.
2) That they will “stick with existing renewable energy contracts” means that the lunacy of Miliband and his Tory predecessors will be retained for decades is complete corporatist lunacy that guarantees no noticeable relief in electricity costs, ever. This is clearly a policy fudge meant to appease all the Tory wets and donors who themselves benefited from these obscene contracts.
3) The repetition of the false claim that the public care about climate change policies, policies that in the past 30 years have not produced any measurable climate results but have triple electricity costs is rubbish. When pollsters ask people if they are willing to pay £5 a week to help with climate change the answer is a resounding no; yet today they are all paying at least 5 times that to get no change in the climate The only polls that ever favour climate change policies are those that assume there is no cost to net zero madness or that it will all be paid for by taxing billionaires.
This is a political construct and not an economic or an energy based one and it relies on the notion that the truth of this plan’s manifest inadequacies won’t come out; that’s politically stupid. The IEA should be ashamed of itself for printing this rubbish and endorsing it as a solution when its transparently BS.
I resigned from the Conservative party years ago but after reading this I will now be joining Reform.
At last a Common Sense and pragmatic Energy Policy that could save our country from net zero zealots of left and right! Pragmatic Conservativism seems to back in business!!!
A ridiculous political fudge that tells me that the Conservative Party are still more focused on conning people than on solving problems. This plan comes nowhere close to producing “cheap energy” and the claim that it would is entirely false.
The notion the cutting systems costs by 20% by 2040 is going to create cheap energy is complete nonsense.If this plan succeeded on its own terms electricity would still be 3 to 4 times the cost of US electricity.
Cheap energy would be cutting the costs paid by the consumer by 65% or more within 5 years; that is an achievable goal from an engineering perspective. Using the target of "systems costs" and not end user cost reductions reveals the lies that eviscerate any notion that this will produce cheap electricity.
The tell-tale giveaways that this plan is either cognitive dissonance run wild, or a politically constructed lie come with at least three clangers:
1) The notion that lowering the cost electricity would see people lining up to buy EV’s and heat pumps is nonsense. It’s not the operating cost, it’s the combination of the purchase price and the fact that they don’t do the job they are intended for very well; e.g. to keep you warm or to move you around at low cost.
2) That they will “stick with existing renewable energy contracts” means that the lunacy of Miliband and his Tory predecessors will be retained for decades is complete corporatist lunacy that guarantees no noticeable relief in electricity costs, ever. This is clearly a policy fudge meant to appease all the Tory wets and donors who themselves benefited from these obscene contracts.
3) The repetition of the false claim that the public care about climate change policies, policies that in the past 30 years have not produced any measurable climate results but have triple electricity costs is rubbish. When pollsters ask people if they are willing to pay £5 a week to help with climate change the answer is a resounding no; yet today they are all paying at least 5 times that to get no change in the climate The only polls that ever favour climate change policies are those that assume there is no cost to net zero madness or that it will all be paid for by taxing billionaires.
This is a political construct and not an economic or an energy based one and it relies on the notion that the truth of this plan’s manifest inadequacies won’t come out; that’s politically stupid. The IEA should be ashamed of itself for printing this rubbish and endorsing it as a solution when its transparently BS.
I resigned from the Conservative party years ago but after reading this I will now be joining Reform.
At last a Common Sense and pragmatic Energy Policy that could save our country from net zero zealots of left and right! Pragmatic Conservativism seems to back in business!!!