Rishi’s rush to Net Zero – Part II – Electricity

Observations

None of us – apart from a tiny number of extreme eco-warriors – can imagine a world where we don’t take the constant availability of reliable electricity for granted. Older readers will remember the 1970s when we had a three-day week and when electricity was rationed to certain periods during the day. One of the Facts4EU.Org team recalls having to do his homework by candlelight. This is not a world which anyone would want to go back to.

The plunge in the production of electricity generated by what might be called conventional means raises some serious questions.

The questions are these :-

• How is it possible to reduce our traditional way of generating electricity by so much, so quickly, without risking blackouts?
• Are some of the reliable experts right when they say we will not have a sufficient amount of electricity generated from renewables by 2035?
• What happens if the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow?
• What happens if foreign suppliers of electricity by undersea cables simply cut off our supply because of their own needs?
• By how much are our electricity bills going to rise even further than they already have?
• Exactly how much has the replacement of traditional electricity production cost us so far, and how much more will it cost?
• Finally, with the percentage dropping by another 5% in 2023, what happened to Mr Sunak’s promise to slow down?

To those questions we remind readers of the additional questions we asked in Part I

• When did we ever vote to have a single issue dominate our lives in such a way?
• Who decided all of this?
• Where is the cost benefit analysis promised by the Government?
• Just how much is all this costing us already and by how much will it increase further?
• How indebted will we, our children, and our grandchildren be as a result of the rush to Net Zero?
• What about the greenhouse emissions from all the energy and products we now import?
• Have we simply exported our carbon emissions to other countries around the globe with less scruples?
• Finally, why is the UK, a tiny emitter of greenhouse gases, in the vanguard of the world when it will make almost no difference to the planet what we do?

We are not experts in the climate change debate – our focus has mainly been on what the EU is NOT doing, but we have a healthy concern that the UK – previously energy self-sufficient – will soon find itself unable to provide basic energy sources for electricity generation and other energy needs.

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