Net Zero Watch says Coutinho’s plan is a “sleight of hand”

Campaign group Net Zero Watch warned Claire Coutinho against removing renewables subsidies from electricity bills. It was revealed yesterday that the Energy Secretary is looking at plans to move the levies onto gas bills or general taxation.

But Net Zero Watch director Andrew Montford has warned that she can only temporarily hide the true cost of renewable energy:

"It’s a sleight of hand. She is simply trying to hide the subsidies while simultaneously insisting that wind power is the cheapest. It’s yet more socialist market-rigging of a kind that the Callaghan government would have recognised."

And Mr Montford called for the government to make good on its promise to come clean about the cost of decarbonising the country:

Mr Sunak has said the Government needs to come clean on the cost of Net Zero, but we are still waiting for him and his Energy Secretary to tell us the truth about renewables. If they don’t come clean soon, their place in the history books will be as a pair of confidence tricksters.