NOW that we we have a cold snap, the electorate is beginning to wake up to the crazy national policy on power generation.
We currently obtain 46 per cent of our power from tried and tested coal generation plants which have greatly reduced their noxious emissions over the last few years.
We produce a good proportion of the coal and can import the rest relatively cheaply from numerous sources.
The plan, already in full swing, is to eliminate all the above over the next eight years or so to replace them with mainly gas powered plants relying on unpredictable supply, predominantly from Russia, at even more unpredictable prices – far higher than we currently pay.
To greatly exacerbate the situation, this and the previous government has signed up to spectacularly expensive subsidies, to be paid for by the consumer, to promote hopelessly expensive and unreliable temporary sources such as wind and solar power, together with huge costs linking these intermittent sources to the grid, when the reliable base producers are forced to step down and run less efficiently.
Reports of decent sensible people leaving their house all day to use public buildings, such as libraries, to afford to keep warm are surfacing but the extent of the full costs of the above policies are only beginning to be generally appreciated.
This is a monster created by politicians cowing to the diktats of European carbon emission policies while leaving the population, not to mention our industrial base, to suffer, shiver and wither.
It is clear that others in Europe, and in particular Germany, have no serious intention of meeting any such targets. (Yorks Post.)
We produce a good proportion of the coal and can import the rest relatively cheaply from numerous sources.
The plan, already in full swing, is to eliminate all the above over the next eight years or so to replace them with mainly gas powered plants relying on unpredictable supply, predominantly from Russia, at even more unpredictable prices – far higher than we currently pay.
To greatly exacerbate the situation, this and the previous government has signed up to spectacularly expensive subsidies, to be paid for by the consumer, to promote hopelessly expensive and unreliable temporary sources such as wind and solar power, together with huge costs linking these intermittent sources to the grid, when the reliable base producers are forced to step down and run less efficiently.
Reports of decent sensible people leaving their house all day to use public buildings, such as libraries, to afford to keep warm are surfacing but the extent of the full costs of the above policies are only beginning to be generally appreciated.
This is a monster created by politicians cowing to the diktats of European carbon emission policies while leaving the population, not to mention our industrial base, to suffer, shiver and wither.
It is clear that others in Europe, and in particular Germany, have no serious intention of meeting any such targets. (Yorks Post.)
