Adam Bell

Surely it just makes the job easier. "What have you done to reduce the price of potatoes today Prime Minister?" And then repeat, for all the foodstuffs.

Consumed most of mine, I think probs for hot water, as I set my pump to charge the tank at solar maximum.

One should always listen to reasonable people one disagrees with! I commend your tea-based fortitude.

What a coup! Will have to have a listen.

Disagree, my 'send the elderly down the mines' proposal is good for growrh AND reducing public spending!

This is excellent if you want a concise summary of this Government's theory of growth.

France - Countries & Regions - IEA France has a low-carbon electricity mix owing to its nuclear fleet, yet many reactors are reaching the end of their lifetime. The country has started an ambitious energy transition by designing a...

These are the IEA per capita figures which I believe are economy wide: www.iea.org/countries/fr...

There is indeed a relationship between power prices and demand, both in the short and the long term.

Indeed it is. Which is a problem.

The UK's per capita power demand has fallen much faster than France, Spain and Germany since 2000.

Developing some work on power demand, and I'm really rather struck about how stark the difference between us and our European friends is:

How bizarre. My experience of Bluesky is that it is cautiously optimistic about AI, both for its productivity upsides and the way it is likely to cost a lot of tech moguls a lot of money during the coming crash.

Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.

Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph

Because this does NOT add up!

No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…

🧵1/9

tired: a wealth tax to reduce inequality
wired: a wealth tax to fund a hunt for the seven cities of gold

crazy how there are 156 billionaires in britain and not ONE of them is whimsical enough to fund a decades-long undersea excavation around the Thanet coastline to find archaeological evidence of Phoenician trading posts and thus corroborate the Bronze Age origins of the Margate Shell Grotto??

Over the next few years it will need to finally get to grips with the wiring of the system if it is to reduce costs on an enduring basis, or it will remain vulnerable to attacks by opponents. /fin

It has taken what could be described as the 'easy' measures - moving costs around rather than seeking to reduce them at source. /13

The Government will be hoping that this now neutralises energy bills for at least a little while, but it will need to contend with likely rises next year to pay for networks, as well as the potential costs of the projects awarded contracts in the next CFD allocation round. /12

Ed Miliband's ability to play the Whitehall game is once again in evidence. But this is partly driven by energy bills now being a No10 problem rather than simply a DESNZ problem. /11

DESNZ leaves the budget with its agenda - and its path to decarbonisation - entirely intact, and with a considerable win on behalf of consumers. /10

Final funding allocations for the Warm Homes Plan are yet to be announced, but the Government has been careful to emphasise that cancelling ECO doesn't mean robbing Peter to pay Paul. /9

This is a reduction in the overall quantum of funding for energy efficiency compared to maintaining an ECO-style approach, but given the relative efficiency of ECO spending and the promise of a new approach may still offer upsides. /8

This extra cash means that the Boiler Upgrade Scheme, recently rumoured to be on its uppers, has been kept whole. /7

An additional £1.5bn of funding has been allocated for the Warm Homes Plan that will be spent on energy saving measures through a new area-based approach directed by the public sector, although the shape of this is to be defined. /6

The quid pro quo for this will be the demise of ECO, the recently unloved energy efficiency scheme delivered by energy suppliers. /5

This gives an average household saving of £154 on Government figures, factoring in the impact on electrically heated homes. Homes heated by gas will see an average saving of £137. /4

75% of the domestic costs of the Renewables Obligation will now be funded by the taxpayer, at least up until 2028/29 - but unlike the fuel duty escalator, it is hard to see these costs being reimposed while other costs continue to rise. /3

And they have done so, breaking through a long-held Treasury red line on funding energy schemes via the taxpayer. /2

A DESNZ CLEAN SWEEP

A package that saved at least £150 off the average household bill was the minimum this Budget needed to achieve to give Labour at least a fighting chance of getting to their £300 target, given the price rises next year. /1

On the other hand, freezing fuel duty while raising tax on EVs will send a particular signal to motorists. The fandango over diesel cars still comes up in focus groups...

Rachel Reeves decides against cutting VAT on energy bills in Budget Chancellor expected to continue with support package for households, including easing of electricity costs

If true, this makes a substantive saving (£150+) harder but not impossible. It simply means more than tinkering with green levies; you're looking at taking older support schemes off the bill entirely and ending the current energy efficiency scheme in favour of a new one.
www.ft.com/content/82f0...