Wind Obsession: Family Energy Bills To Soar By £300

Family energy bills will soar by more than £300 a year because of the obsession with wind power, a report claimed yesterday. The Government’s green crusade “blunder” will cost £124 billion, according to a former World Bank adviser. He estimates that by 2020 domestic electricity bills will have risen by up to 58 per cent under plans for a huge increase in the number of onshore and offshore wind turbines. Professor Gordon Hughes warn­ed that wind power may even fail in its aim of cutting greenhouse gases. In a damning report for Lord Lawson’s Global Warming Policy Foundation, Professor Hughes said family electricity bills will rise to nearly £850 a year from their current £528 to pay for wind power technology. --John Ingham, Daily Express, 7 August 2012