Why has the Government still not formally responded to the independent review that it commissioned into the cost of energy? Perhaps its findings are too damning. Staggeringly, the review found that the government has wasted the best part of £100billion on the decarbonisation of the power sector. That this is not more widely known is thanks […]

The Office for Budget Responsibility has just published the Spring Statement. It’s  Economic & Fiscal Outlook reveals that the cost of Environmental Levies this year will be £11.3bn, a rise of £2.0bn over the last financial year. 2.7 Environmental levies   £ billion   Outturn Forecast   2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23 CRC […]

An energy price cap designed to end expensive tariffs could actually end up increasing bills, experts say. The new cap, the details of which are due to be published next week, will reduce the cost of the most expensive tariffs, paid by loyal customers, but will dampen competition and could put the smaller firms that offer the cheapest deals out […]

A week dedicated to topics that underscore impacts environmentalists don’t want to discuss April 22 was Earth Day, the March for Science and Lenin’s birthday (which many say is appropriate, since environmentalism is now green on the outside and red, anti-free enterprise on the inside). April 29 will feature the People’s Climate March and the […]

The real killer stalking the world these days isn’t climate… it’s poverty. Friday is Earth Day for the left and you’ll hear no end of crowing about it. Not by accident, it also coincides with the day that the Paris Climate Agreement supposedly goes into effect. This plan, which President Obama signed onto in a non-binding […]

Sunday is Earth Day. While environmentalist groups are planning marches to support renewable energy development, several groups are pushing back by declaring April 17-21 Green Energy Poverty Week. Their goal is to highlight the effects that green energy policies have on low income households. The term green energy poverty is a variation on global energy […]

By Caleb Stewart Rossiter, School of International Service and Department of Mathematics and Statistics, American University. Primum non nocere — above all, do no harm, says the medical maxim. In public policy, where every action has different effects on different people, the maxim becomes “above all, do no net harm.” That means that the benefits […]

If anyone thinks Germany’s move to renewable energies has been a success, you may want to take a few minutes and read what center-left news weekly Der Spiegel has just written. Overall Germany’s energy revolution has made the country’s energy unaffordable, unreliable and has ruined its own idyllic landscape, and ravaged rainforests abroad as well. Spiegel focusses […]