⚠️ Net Zero is Broken: Miliband’s Plan Needs Gas, Nuclear… and £116 Billion to Stop Blackouts ⚠️

They told us we could power Britain with sunshine and wind.☁️ Then January 2025 came — and the grid almost collapsed.Now even Ed Miliband admits:💨 Wind and solar aren’t reliable🔥 Gas is essential backup☢️ Only nuclear can keep the lights on💷 And we’ll spend £116 billion+ rebuilding the grid just to try to make it work.

🧊 January 2025:

The Week the Wind Died

A high-pressure winter freeze brought:

☁️ Zero solar output for days🌬️ Wind dropped to 4% of demand⚡ Peak demand surged to 61 GW

National Grid ESO scrambled:

🔥 Fired up emergency gas peakers

🏭 Put coal reserves on warm standby (not used)

⚠️ Issued tight margin warnings🔌 Maxed out European interconnectors

🏢 Asked big industry to switch off> “We were hours from rolling blackouts.”— Grid control source, The Times, 13 Jan 2025

And this is with 47 GW+ of installed wind and solar.

With This Net Zero Failed it’s First Test

💸 The True Cost of the Green IllusionTo patch up this broken dream, we’re now being told:

🧾 Grid upgrades will cost £116 billion+(National Grid ESO Spatial Plan, Q2 2025)

⚡ Constraint payments (paying wind farms to switch off):£3.5 billion in 2024(ESO Balancing Report, Jan 2025)

💷 Renewables subsidies (CfDs, ROCs, FiTs):£13.5 billion/year(DESNZ Accounts, March 2025)

🧮 Over 220 GW of projects are stuck in the queue(NGESO Connections Dashboard, May 2025)

💰 Net Zero policy levies are adding £500–800 to annual household bills(Ofgem Policy Cost Impact Review, April 2025)>

“We’re building a £100 billion grid for weather-dependent power that disappears in winter.”

🔥 Even Miliband Can’t Pretend Anymore

In June 2025, Labour quietly admitted:

✅ Gas will remain essential beyond 2030❌ Battery storage isn’t enough for long lulls☢️ Only nuclear offers future reliability

This comes straight from:> Labour’s Energy Transition Roadmap, June 2025DESNZ testimony to the Energy Security Committee, July 2025

So why are we:🌾

Ripping up farmland for solar fields?

🪫 Building BESS batteries that store just 2–4 hours of energy?

🚧 Pouring billions into a grid that isn’t fit for purpose?Because Net Zero has become a political religion — not a rational energy policy.

🧠 What Britain Should Be Doing

🇬🇧 Reclaim our energy independence with realism and engineering, not ideology.

✅ Build British SMRs — clean nuclear made in the UK

✅ Use rooftop solar films like Power Roll, not ground-mounted megafarms

✅ Keep clean gas as a stable transition fuel

✅ Reform the grid for resilience, not ideology

✅ Protect our farmland and food security

✅ Put families and industry before climate slogans

📣 Final Word> “Net Zero needs gas, relies on nuclear, bankrupts the grid, destroys the countryside — and still doesn’t work when the wind stops.”— Reform Energy Campaign, July 2025