The Sun Will Come Up Tomorrow
It’s only a decade away
Posted on 11 Mar 25
by Mark Hodgson
In Economical With the Truth I took issue with a BBC Verify report that asked “If the UK has more renewable energy, why aren’t bills coming down?”. It ignored lots of the net zero-related reasons for this, and largely blamed gas prices, while continuing to claim that renewable energy is cheap, and will deliver lower prices in due course.
It may as well have been a dry run for a report released today by Energy UK (“the voice of the energy industry”), and which makes many of the same claims, while indulging in some short-term special pleading.
Although Energy UK claims to be the voice of the UK energy industry, it is completely signed up to the net zero agenda, fossil fuel outfits don’t seem to get a look-in, and it might as well describe itself as the voice of the renewables industry (which is doing rather well, given that it already has its own trade body – Renewable UK). Energy UK’s most recent chief executive was Emma Pinchbeck, who is now chief executive of the Climate Change Committee. The Energy UK board she leaves behind includes top people from Centrica, Drax, E.ON UK, EDF, and a new chief executive who is on the board of Green Alliance and who, prior to joining Energy UK, led work on net zero, the future energy system and decarbonisation at Citizens Advice. Its Chairman is David Laws, former leading MP for the Liberal Democrats, a party also extremely keen on net zero. Others have biographies that tell us they variously held roles across low carbon generation at Equinor, Orsted and EDF Energy; have worked in the Executive teams at Ofgem and National Grid ESO, leading a range of operational functions, with responsibilities spanning decarbonisation, network development, and security of supply; helped to deliver the CBI’s “ground-breaking” report on climate change in 2007, which helped shift the perception of the role business can play in the low-carbon economy, and set up and led the CBI’s climate change team before becoming Director of Infrastructure; and so on. We get the picture.
https://cliscep.com/2025/03/11/the-sun-will-come-up-tomorrow/
