‘Renewables’ Costing You 33% More on Your Electricity Bill
In some ways I pity Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart, who, on the latest edition of their The Rest is Politics podcast, have put themselves through an hour of ‘net zero’ word soup from the new Climate Change Committee CEO Emma Pinchbeck
I have listened to it (or as much as I could endure) so you don’t have to!
But it is alarming that someone like this is anywhere near the levers of power.
Take Ms Pinchbeck’s views on electricity costs, for example. In one place, she says:
“Gas is more expensive than renewables. And it means that the electricity price that would be cheaper is driven up by the cost of gas. And so our electricity price tracks the gas price.”
To anyone who understands electricity markets, this remark is positioned somewhere between ‘misleading’ and ‘deceptive’: it is only wholesale markets that track gas prices, and since gas prices are now only a whisker above their long-term average, they can no longer be (correctly) blamed for pushing bills up.
Moreover, she repeatedly invites Campbell, Stewart and the listeners to believe that ‘renewables’ are not the problem. She mentions ‘cheap renewables’ three times, as well as other terms insinuating the same idea.
But in another part of the interview, she seems to recognise that it’s policy costs pushing bills up:
Our policy costs sit on the electricity part of our bill… what we have accidentally done is make the fuel of the future…more expensive with a policy choice.
(The ellipses there cover a positive deluge of word soup, but I think I have captured her meaning correctly.)
What is more, she seems to understand that those policy charges to consumers are covering the costs of all the ‘green’ nonsense:
“…the decision to put those costs on electricity is in one way logical because some of that is financing new electricity infrastructure.”
She is not wrong. Analysis of Ofgem data (Figure 1), shows that policy costs are now 33 percent of the electricity bill, 20 percent of it being ‘renewables’ subsidies and most of the rest being ‘net zero’ related.
‘Net zero’ is also driving up grid costs (the red sections of the pie).
Figure 1: Breakdown of median electricity bill
Figure 2 shows the difference in bills today and bills ten years ago. It is almost solely about ‘net zero’.
Figure 2: How bills changed between 2015 and 2025.
Having somehow contrived to get two somewhat contradictory thoughts – ‘gas is driving up electric bills’ and ‘renewables subsidies are driving up electricity bills’ – in her head, Ms Pinchbeck seems mystified that people find her unconvincing.
“So when they hear people like me telling them that renewables are cheap or these technologies are cheap and they see their bill, they think…we must be making it up.’
And they would be right to think so.
Ms Pinchbeck proceeds to her solution. Which is to move those policy costs off electricity bills and onto taxation. This in an odd remedy, given that she has told everyone that electricity bills track gas prices.
It is also remarkable given she clearly understands that the policy levies represent the costs of “new electricity infrastructure”. As most of my readers probably know, prices convey information about underlying costs, supply and demand to buyers.
Removing levies from electricity bills would simply destroy that information flow. In other words, the Pinchbeck solution would have electricity buyers and sellers operate entirely in the dark.
This is, of course, where the Soviet Union went wrong. I suppose we should cut Ms Pinchbeck some slack, because she was only seven when the wall came down.
And I might cut Messrs Campbell and Stewart some slack for failing to pick up the contradictions or idiocies – neither are experts, and Ms Pinchbeck’s word soup is nothing if not impenetrable.
But it will still be be depressing if, having appointed someone so young to such an important position, the UK has to learn the lessons of history all over again.
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ABOUT ENERGY COMPANIES…
Let me explain about energy companies and what they can and CANNOT do.
The electric and gas supply to the house or company cannot be cut off ever. Well not in the UK.
The world of the movies is different. Once installed that supply of Gas or Elec or Water will be maintained because the National grid is not the energy billing company.
It’s a separate company called the National Grid who have the contract with the government and they will not breach that contract and the judge has no authority to override that contract.
So not even a court order can have that Gas/Elec/Water feed cut off. Which is why they want to get in your house and fit a prepay meter.
Now this is Civil and in the world of Civil the Judge CANNOT give that order, and he won’t.
WHY? The contempt of court reporting restriction do restrain the Judge and if he breaches this it’s a Judicial review at the Royal Courts of Justice and he gets fired.
So in brief there is no chance in hell that the feed supply will ever be cut off.
I can’t say that this is the same in every country. But they have to dig a hole in the street to get that done. I’m not saying that it can’t be done but the National grid will tell the Judge to fuck off.
They can do anything in the Movies. The Bureaucratic red tape for digging a hole in the street alone can take months.
The Billing Company is just that. It’s a metering and Billing service also licensed by the criminal cabal dba Government, Which also means in economic terms the Gas/Elec is 92% Tax the same as fuel.
A Billing company does not provide any Gas/Elec.
It’s just an extension of government by the licence Billing company.
The Gas/Elec meter is NOT owned by the Billing company either and all they have is the serial number of the meter on record.
So without that serial number on record which gets moved from Billing company to billing company when you change billing company, they have no reason to Bill you or enter your home.
I am now using the words Billing company because they do not provide the Gas/Elec. Can you see how the language they use is also fraud??
The very contract is Fraud and there can never be that full disclosure to the Fact that they are just a Billing company under licence from the government OFGEM office.
The Government do not have the Legal authority to sign that OFGEM Billing company licence because the people have never signed that Legal Consent. NONE of the Acts and Statutes are legal enforceable without the consent of the governed.
So it’s end to end fraud and the unsigned paper they never sign is the proof of that fact. Companies Act 2006 section 44. Go read it.
Everything has to be signed by an authorised person. Well the Billing Company itself is not the authorised person, is it?
Which is why nothing is ever signed.
Fraud Act 2006 section 4(2) Fraud by abuse of position when it is an Act of omission. It’s not signed. AND they can’t legally sign it so they don’t. Its all about the Paper evidence and they send that to you.
It is in your hand. Material evidence of fraud sent by the fraudsters,
Which brings us once again back to the Claim and to the MAXIM..
“He who makes a claim carries the OBLIGATION to provide the Material substance of the Claim. Otherwise the claim is fraudulent in nature and it is also a known CHARGEABLE, Criminal offence.
The signed authorisation does not exist.
You don’t need to go to court.
What everyone should be doing, is getting a responsible fitter to fit YOUR OWN meter in your OWN home. There are thousands of meters on Ebay.
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The use of the word renewable is foolish and meaningless.
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