⚠️ “We warned you. Now Miliband just proved it.”
For months, Reform UK has warned that Britain’s reckless rush to Net Zero by 2030 would:
> ✅ Collapse under its own contradictions
✅ Leave consumers footing the bill for two energy systems
✅ Force a return to fossil backup when renewables fail
✅ Create a gold rush for private developers while real infrastructure lags
This week, Ed Miliband admitted we were right.
🔥 What Just Happened?
On July 16th, The Telegraph revealed that:
> 📣 Ed Miliband has ordered the National Energy System Operator (NESO) to secure 40GW of backup power – enough for 35–40 new gas-fired power stations
🔁 This is to cover days when wind and solar can’t keep the lights on
💷 It will drive up Capacity Market costs to £4 billion/year by 2030 – paid for by consumers
🔗 Telegraph Source (16 July 2025)
🧾 “Paying Twice” in Action:
Britain’s energy strategy now means:
💸 You pay to build wind & solar (via Contracts for Difference – CfDs)
💸 You also pay for fossil fuel backup (via the Capacity Market)
⚡ You still pay sky-high prices when renewables fail and backup prices surge
> “This results in two parallel electricity systems… and increases costs.”
— John Constable, Renewable Energy Foundation
🧠 Reform UK Predicted This Months Ago
Here’s what we said:
> 🗨️ “Net Zero is a triple-cost trap — one to build, one to back up, and one to subsidise failure.”
— Reform UK energy campaign, May 2025
> 🗨️ “The public are being told solar and wind are cheap. But when the grid fails, you’ll be paying gas prices anyway.”
— Reform UK, Thorpe Marsh BESS Campaign, April 2025
> 🗨️ “They’re building solar farms with no grid and no storage. Then gas fills the gap — so what was the point?”
— Rother Valley Solar Sprawl Briefing, June 2025
> 🗨️ “Without grid reform and baseload supply, this is just corporate welfare dressed as climate policy.”
— Reform UK Submission to Ofgem, July 2025
📊 The Real Cost of Miliband’s Energy Plan
📦 Policy Mechanism 💷 Annual Cost (2025) ⏫ By 2030
Contracts for Difference (CfDs) £1.8 billion [^1] >£3–5 billion
Capacity Market £1.3 billion [^2] £4 billion [^3]
Renewables Subsidy Total £25.8 billion [^4] Still rising
Cost to Household £100+ (CfDs) + £21 (Capacity) Possibly £200+
⚙️ This Isn’t Energy Security. It’s Chaos.
Miliband’s plan now relies on:
🛢️ 100+ new gas plants to cover solar/wind gaps
⚠️ No long-duration storage ready
🚫 No grid reform plan in place
⏳ Delays on transformers, substations, and interconnectors (NGESO Appendix G, June 2025)
🧾 Consumers footing every bill
Meanwhile, farmland and greenbelt are being handed to solar developers with no delivery guarantee — and no proper scrutiny.
🧭 What Reform UK Is Demanding:
🔧 A full review of Net Zero law and targets
📊 A cost-benefit audit of renewables, backup, and grid subsidies
🏗️ Investment in UK-based baseload solutions like Small Modular Reactors (SMRs)
🌱 Scaling rooftop solar film and brownfield projects – not swallowing up Grade 2 farmland
🔌 A National Grid Renewal Strategy before approving more NSIPs
🛑 An immediate pause on solar and BESS NSIPs until real grid reform is delivered
🗳️ The Public Deserves the Truth
This isn’t a green future. It’s a subsidised collapse, where private developers get rich, fossil fuels still dominate, and households are forced to pay twice — or more.
> ✊ Reform UK called this months ago.
❌ Labour’s Clean Power plan is now backed by gas and subsidies.
🔁 The public is caught in a loop of failing policy and rising costs.
📚 References
[^1]: House of Commons Library. “CfD Impact on Bills.” March 2025.
[^2]: DESNZ. “Capacity Market Costs 2024–25.” Published January 2025.
[^3]: Office for Budget Responsibility, Fiscal Risks Report, May 2025.
[^4]: John Constable, Renewable Energy Foundation, quoted in The Telegraph, 16 July 2025.
[^5]: NESO Capacity Register, July 2025.
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