31 October 2025
Ever larger wind farms and turbines are not bringing energy bills down. Whitelee Wind Farm, Eaglesham Scotland, the largest onshore site in Britain. Photo Josie Campbell via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).
The Labour government, and energy minister Ed Miliband in particular, claimed that renewable energy would reduce electricity prices by £300 by 2030. Things are not turning out that way.
There was never any real evidence that this would be achievable. And now the net zero green levies on electricity bills are forecast to increase by £300 by 2030, if the current trend continues.
Aligned
The Resolution Foundation is calling for the government to move the cost of these levies onto general taxation in an attempt to hide the increases. It calls itself an independent think tank, but it is closely aligned to the Labour government and influences its policies.
Predictably, Miliband blames high wholesale gas costs for high electricity costs. Yet he refuses to expand our own gas reserves around Britain, preferring to import both gas and electricity.
‘Miliband prefers to import gas and electricity.’
And even if wholesale electricity prices were halved, green levies would still push up electricity bills.
Belatedly, Miliband now talks about high energy costs. But his idea is to drop the rate of VAT on energy, seeming to forget that the Labour chancellor is preparing the ground for hefty tax rises in the November Budget.