Letters / No logic in net zero
Everyone knows that prices are going up, the question is why?
The cost-of-living crisis is due to UK government policy. All electricity payers, individuals and businesses, are paying for the renewable energy system.
Renewable power generators get paid regardless. They are paid when their wind farms and solar plants produce power, as you would expect, but, remarkably, they are also get paid through “constraint payments” when the National Grid tells them not to produce electricity!
A win-win situation for the power companies, a lose-lose situation for individuals and businesses, and at over £1 billion in 2023–24 alone, an eye-watering amount for all electricity customers to pay.
Those electricity costs, production and non-production, come out of our electricity bills.
Net Zero will push more fuel-poor households into hardship locally.
We are all paying to subsidise the renewable energy system. Businesses have to pass on some of their costs, prices go up. That is the cost-of-living crisis right there.
I struggle to see any logic in net zero, but all the main political seem to be saying full steam ahead.
Brian Nugent
Hamnavoe
Burra
