Is the Renewable Tide Turning?
Last December, I was invited to attend a select committee inquiry at Westminster with other members of the public by DESNZ (Department ofEnergy and Net Zero) to discuss Net Zero and the policies needed to support the energy transition.
I have been unable to say much about that meeting as we were were sworn to secrecy! There is supposed to be a public report of that meeting from over three months ago, but I’m told it may be some while before its available.
However, I am now at least able to mention that the meeting took place and the general topics.
It seemed to me that the main goal of the meeting was how to better convince the public that acheiving Net Zero was necessary to save the climate, the planet and people’s health and how to better convince the public to support the Government’s Net Zero policies. In other words, how could the polical propaganda be improved to get more public support.
I expected to be a lone voice opposing the very real impacts of Net Zero policies especially upon rural residents (and Oil and Gas industries) who were bearing the burden of what is palpably an unjust transition. So it was both surprising and refreshing to see that many of the invited public were not just concerned, but angry about the impacts of Net Zero policies. And these were not just people from Scotland, but from all parts of the UK, including those who were seeing food producing farmland swallowed up by serried ranks of solar panels.
Collectively, I think we did acheive something-
The UK Government now recognises that the vocal oppostion to Net Zero and the energy transition has grown in strength, political consensus has fractured and with it potentially the will to carry it through.
I have been unable to say much about that meeting as we were were sworn to secrecy! There is supposed to be a public report of that meeting from over three months ago, but I’m told it may be some while before its available.
However, I am now at least able to mention that the meeting took place and the general topics.
It seemed to me that the main goal of the meeting was how to better convince the public that acheiving Net Zero was necessary to save the climate, the planet and people’s health and how to better convince the public to support the Government’s Net Zero policies. In other words, how could the polical propaganda be improved to get more public support.
I expected to be a lone voice opposing the very real impacts of Net Zero policies especially upon rural residents (and Oil and Gas industries) who were bearing the burden of what is palpably an unjust transition. So it was both surprising and refreshing to see that many of the invited public were not just concerned, but angry about the impacts of Net Zero policies. And these were not just people from Scotland, but from all parts of the UK, including those who were seeing food producing farmland swallowed up by serried ranks of solar panels.
Collectively, I think we did acheive something-
The UK Government now recognises that the vocal oppostion to Net Zero and the energy transition has grown in strength, political consensus has fractured and with it potentially the will to carry it through.
The folly of the Iran war have only served to heighten the stupidity of ignoring our own valuable and secure oil and gas reserves in favour of the ‘green dream’ whilst our cost of living sky rockets.
Perhaps the Emperor’s clothes are finally coming off and the idiocy of the green zealot underneath is about to be revealed to all.
I think that investors will think twice about investing in short lived renewable generation when its clear the direction of travel will need to be in oil, gas and nuclear which have served us reliably in the last century – at least until we go back to having a balanced energy strategy. As we know, investors and developers are only interested in profit and money, whether that’s from publicly funded subsidies or from selling electricity at exorbitant rates. (The UK having the most expensive industrial electricity of the G20) If investment fails, so will the renewable developments.
Perhaps the Emperor’s clothes are finally coming off and the idiocy of the green zealot underneath is about to be revealed to all.
I think that investors will think twice about investing in short lived renewable generation when its clear the direction of travel will need to be in oil, gas and nuclear which have served us reliably in the last century – at least until we go back to having a balanced energy strategy. As we know, investors and developers are only interested in profit and money, whether that’s from publicly funded subsidies or from selling electricity at exorbitant rates. (The UK having the most expensive industrial electricity of the G20) If investment fails, so will the renewable developments.
When DESNZ finally provide a report on that meeting, I’ll post it here.
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