Next winter. My gas bill has increased from around 100 monthly to 290 based on this years gas usage.
Because I was paying 3.7p per KW hour. Now incresing to a rediculous 12.4p per kwh. Electricity is increasing by around 55% too.
We are an island. One that has enough coal and mines for generating super cheap electricity for the next 200 years according to estimates. Enough to heat all our homes with electricity for pennies. But we shut them all down, allowed them to flood, And then the morons in power celebrated this by literally blowing them up and "greening" the land. With the exception of 3 powerplants. The biggest of which was converted to burn WOOD pellets that are shipped from the USA. Burning trees in this DRAX converted power station by destroying huge forrests in the USA at 4x the price of our own coal is apparently green! The other two power stations, remaininng for now and much industry like steel, are now buying overpriced coal from around the planet.
Then theres the fact that we are an island. We have at least 400 years worth of gas, and oil in the north sea. And around scotland. And in the irish sea. But instead of continuing to use research vessels and mapping out new fields and doing test drilling, building new oil and gas rigs as we did in the past we refused to allow the oil companies to do this. Why? Because while we have industrial shit loads of the stuff literally all around us, waiting to be used the morons with the green nonsense brainwashed into their skulls say oil/gas is bad. So now we buy all our oil and most of our gas from rediculously expensive sources around the planet and ship in gas in boats as liquid which is refrigerated. So we still actually burn the same amount, but now we pay over 6x as much for it and because its always "boiling" off to remain liquid a large percentage is also wasted!
Then theres nuclear. We had 17 nuclear power stations all built around the same time. These are all now either already shut down, including 3 more this year, and all will be closed by 2029. In 2025 only 3 will remain. So the reliable energy that nuclear represented is going away fast. So this leaves up in a proper mess. Caused by a complete lack of forsight over the last 30 years. A complete bunch of stupid ignorant "green" agenda politicians. So now we have a country that is claiming to be leading the world in "net zero" because of wind and solar.
We the reality is a litte dfferent.
I use an energy watchdog website with real time energy usage data. It shows that the reality in this country for ELECTRICITY is that wind is hopeless. And that almost all of our electrical power relies on IMPORTED gas to generate electricity. Typically that is half of our electrical grid most days. The rest is around 16% nuclear. Both of which are supposed to be bad. Gas = co2 and we are all going to die
The rest, around a third of our electricity comes from buying it from 6 different interconnects to other countries which is really expensive. And from microgeneration like solar which only works in summer and not at night, and then some small coal, wood pellets like drax. So this net zero is all a sad joke. The government have wasted 30 billion of our money building millions of windmills. These CAN generate a third of the UKs power. If its windy enough. Usually a lot less. Like 1, to 3 percent only for around a week. See below.
So since gas is bad and they wasted 20 years allowing all the gas/oil fields to run our without allowing any new ones, and thats still ongoing, wood pellets are also CO2 bad, nuclear takes 20 years to build and become operational, we are now completely up shit creek.
All this "renewables" nonsens on non windy days generates literally 1 to 3% of our needs. We BUY IN fossil fuels, and fossil fuel generated electricity just to keep the lights on. And now boris wants us to all drive electric cars. (takes 50 to 100kwh to charge! 10X what your home uses).
And that ist the worst of it. Gas boilers which heat almost all british homes are now to be banned. Its already against the law to sell gas central heating boilers after 2030. And boris things we can send 30 to 60k rebuilding every house to be efficient enough to use an electrical heat pump. That will take approx 3 to 5x as much electrical power as your existing electricity consumption. So we will need a grid that can generate around 5 to 10x as much as it does today.
So this huge energy cost thing is a direct consequence of the green agenda and stupid politicians. And it will all end in tears with massive reduction in GDP as well as everyones standards of living. And all for nothing.