Everyone please put £500 in a tin

[GreenLabel]

Energy bill rises to tackle climate change are tiny

Even "tiny" is too much.

Besides, you'll excuse me if I don't take anything written by George Monbiot terribly seriously...

[AtW]

Anyone who whines about cost of energy being too high should get a PAYG power meter

[DimPrawn]

you have to love these SKA/search engine guys. they are expert in a tiny tiny niche of some obscure branch of somethingorother, but they like to spout with godlike certainty on every subject under the sun.

FTFY

[EternalOptimist]

I wouldnt stress too much about what pj says, he has used his model to give us his prediction. the cost of a pint a month.

we will be able to check it out soon enough. so around about the time that the ice should be disappearing from the north pole, the average leccky bill should have gone up by a fiver a month

only a couple of more years to wait


you have to love these climate guys. they are expert in a tiny tiny niche of some obscure branch of somethingorother, but they like to spout with godlike certainty on every subject under the sun.

[BlasterBates]

Thiere was also a programme about it, the costs of subsidising solar panels is now 10 billion EUR, and this is set to go up next year as well, so we'll get a 10% hike next year as well. If energy goes up as well (gas, oil etc) that will be on top of that.

It was also in the letter we all received from the utility company, the rise is due solely to renewable subsidies.

Don't forget the pound dropped last year so energy prices in the UK may have gone up because of that, in Germany oil and gas prices have come down.

[TimberWolf]

Well you'd better think again because the electricity bills in Germany just went up 10%, and they explicitly stated it was because of renewable energy, they're just a bit further down the road.

....2.5% a year what a load of BS.

As believable as the German's government projections a few years back.

If they go down the renewable route it'll cost an absolute fortune.

Haven't consumer energy prices already risen by 10 or 20% this year?

[BlasterBates]

.....less than 2.5% a year on average.

Well you'd better think again because the electricity bills in Germany just went up 10%, and they explicitly stated it was because of renewable energy, they're just a bit further down the road.

....2.5% a year what a load of BS.

As believable as the German's government projections a few years back.

If they go down the renewable route it'll cost an absolute fortune.

[TimberWolf]

I call BS. Ofgem estimate the measures will increase bills by 25%, which actually equates to about £270 on the average bill. But that is over the course of the next decade, or less than 2.5% a year on average. Averaged out we are talking about an increase in the annual bill that works out less than the price of a pint per household per month.

If anything it is The Mail and Telegraph who are scaring the poor and vulnerable by quoting nonsense figures plucked out of the air by 'experts' from e.g. The Taxpayers Alliance.

And they call us alarmist!

Who is us?

[DimPrawn]

Energy bills could double to pay for green power as ministers plan minimum carbon price | Mail Online

I'm sure this is comforting to millions of people shivering in their homes, tulipting themselves when the utility bills arrive, that paying for this will prevent Britain from bursting into flames during a barbeque summer heatwave.

[SupremeSpod]

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Oh bollocks to it!

[DimPrawn]

£500 on electricity bills to pay for green energy - Telegraph

Electricity bills will have to rise by up to £500 a year to pay for a new generation of environmentally friendly power stations, it emerged.



Remember, if we don't do this, the climate will change and we won't see snow anymore and the fields will be filled with Olive trees.