The government wants to replace Britain’s decrepit fossil fuel energy system with a shiny new low-carbon one. To guide the £200bn makeover, ministers have cooked up a melange of huge subsidies for low-carbon technologies and penalties for polluters. Supporters call the policy ambitious. A growing chorus of critics call it something else:the world’s most expensive energy policy, which the government is ramming through despite the seismic changes that have occurred since it was conceived. --Danny Fortson, The Sunday Times, 2 June 2013