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Know why your fuel bills are soaring? 20 years of 'renewables' lies John Constable September 2, 2022 THE UK's energy crisis has been in the making for more than 20 years and is the result of the incompetent policies of Mr Blair, Mr Brown, Mr Cameron, Mrs May, and Mr Johnson, and all their hapless energy minsters and advisors too numerous to name. Today’s rapidly rising household electricity bills are a consequence of unrealistic energy and climate policies that forced us to use low quality and unreliable renewable energy, giving the illusion of diversity and security, while discouraging the high-quality sources such as coal, nuclear, and gas that provide a truly robust and secure supply. This has left the UK critically dependent on one high quality fuel alone, natural gas, much of which now has to be imported. It really is that simple, and with the Ukraine war, those chickens have come home to roost. How did this happen? And how can we have an energy cost crisis caused by imports when we have so much so-called “home grown” renewable energy on the system. The answer is that the Government’s hugely expensive renewables policy –£50 billion in total since 2002 and rising at the rate of about £10 billion a year – has actually caused the problem, wrecking our fuel diversity by driving coal off the system and resulting in a nuclear decline. But because renewables such as wind and solar are unreliable they contribute nothing to security of supply, the policies have put the whole burden of system reliability on natural
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