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

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Wind energy is the most expensive way of generating renewable electricity. It will also cost jobs. We are already seeing some industrial firms packing up and moving abroad. The increasing price of energy is going to be the next big political problem. --Professor Ian Fells, Daily Express, 7 August 2012 Experts predict that household electricity bills will rise from an average of £528 per year to as much as £840 by 2020. Why Because of the Government’s baffling support for wind power. Investment in wind power turbines will cost 10 times as much as modern gas power stations. Rising costs and hideous turbines of dubious efficiency – all in the name of greenwash policies. Wind power is a real vote loser for this Government. --Editorial, Daily Express, 7 August 2012

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The proven gas reserves in the US are 50% higher in 2010 than 30 years ago during which time the country consumed more than double the amount of the 1980 proved gas reserve number. That's the complete opposite of every energy prediction ever made. How could that be? --John Hanger's Facts of the Day, 3 August 2012 George Osborne will promise to make Britain an “even more attractive place” for the oil and gas industry in a blow to Liberal Democrat ambitions to shift away from fossil fuels. The Chancellor will today praise “remarkable” oil and gas companies for making the most “significant contribution” to the UK economy in the energy sector. Mr Osborne will say gas is crucial to meet the UK’s electricity demand throughout the next decade and beyond. --Rowena Mason, The Daily Telegraph, 7 August 2012 Slogans like "beyond coal" may appeal to Sierra Clubbers and to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who gave the environmental group $50 million to help "end the coal era." But with 1.3 billion people on the planet still lacking access to electricity, the priority for leaders in places like New Delhi isn't carbon-dioxide emissions or "clean energy." Their primary aim is to bring their people out of the dark. --Robert Bryce, The Wall Street Journal, 6 August 2012 “The Bank of Washington continues to help us!” bragged Solyndra CEO Chris Gronet in emails released last week. “Getting business from Uncle Sam is a principal element of Solyndra’s channel strategy,” wrote Tom Baruch, founder of Solyndra investor CEMA Capital, in an August 10, 2010 email. An investigation by the House Energy and Commerce Committee revealed that Solyndra—the solar company that went under, taking more than $600 million in taxpayer funds with it—wasn’t ever supposed to be an independent business. It was built to rely on the taxpayers. --Amy Payne, The Foundry, 6 August 2012

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