Rewewable energy is hard Labour

The Labour Party's green energy plans are coming under scrutiny. But all Westminster parties have contributed to the UK's Net Zero train wreck. The wheels are falling off.

It’s been a bit of a week of admin and some travelling, rather than the number-crunching I would rather have been doing. However, on Sunday night, I was on Mark Dolan’s GB News show in the wake of the Labour Party’s wobbling on its pledge to borrow and spend £28 billion per year on its ‘Green Prosperity Plan’ and to make Britain a ‘clean energy superpower’ by 2030. The Telegraph reported that ‘Keir Starmer’s plan to ‘rewire Britain’ is already coming unstuck’.

The extra £28 billion a year that Labour want to borrow and find is just the part of it. I have pointed out in recent articles here (repeated on the show) that we are already paying around £7 billion a year in subsidies to renewable energy generators through the Renewable Obligations (RO) scheme.