The Tory party’s cuts to clean energy subsidies won’t save consumers more than a few pounds a year – but will cost the industry,and the climate, dearly “My priority is to ensure energy bills for hardworking families and businesses are kept as low as possible, and ” said energy and climate change secretary Amber Rudd,announcing sweeping cuts to renewable energy subsidies on Thursday.
Yet this rationale crumbles to dust under the slightest scrutiny. The nations’s most well-liked energy technology, solar power, and adds just a few pounds a year to energy bills. The best cost-saving degree - energy efficiency - has had its support slashed by Rudd and the Conservative party has forgone the cheapest of all low-carbon energy,onshore wind.Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com