The Tory party’s cuts to clean energy subsidies won’t save consumers more than a few pounds a year – but will cost the industry, and the climate, dearly
“My priority is to ensure energy bills for hardworking families and businesses are kept as low as possible,” said energy and climate change secretary Amber Rudd, announcing sweeping cuts to renewable energy subsidies on Thursday.
Yet this rationale crumbles to dust under the slightest scrutiny. The nations’s most popular energy technology, solar power, adds just a few pounds a year to energy bills. The best cost-saving measure – energy efficiency – has had its support slashed by Rudd and the Conservative party has forgone the cheapest of all low-carbon energy, onshore wind.