Engineered to Implode 💣⚠️

How the CCC and DESNZ Built a Failing Energy System -On Purpose

The UK’s energy crisis isn’t an accident. It’s the outcome of a system designed in Whitehall, where the Climate Change Committee (CCC) writes the legally binding carbon budgets and the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) funds the modelling to “prove” they’re achievable – without ever checking if the grid, the engineering, or the economics can deliver them.This closed loop of target-setting and self-validation rewards consultants, think tanks, and developers, while leaving the public with unreliable power, spiralling bills, and grid infrastructure built for fantasy projects that may never exist.

Bottlenecks = Blank Cheques 💷🔥

CCC carbon budgets drive arbitrary capacity targets. DESNZ, through Ofgem’s Anticipatory Investment policy, orders upgrades for “projected” capacity — no proof of viability required. Every grid snag becomes an excuse to spend more public money on infrastructure that may never carry a single watt.

Curtailments = Cash Cows ⚡💰

The CCC’s blind pursuit of intermittent generation creates inevitable oversupply. Under the Transmission Constraint Licence Condition (TCLC), developers are paid not to generate when the grid can’t take their power. Beatrice Offshore Wind Farm was fined £33 million for manipulating these rules — but the underlying system, signed off by DESNZ, still guarantees curtailment profits at consumer expense.

Queue Chaos = Deal Frenzy 📈🤷

CCC budgets set unrealistic build schedules. DESNZ’s grid policies, combined with Ofgem’s queue reforms, create a trade in connection slots:Developers sell or flip queue positions.Speculators hold projects hostage for better Contracts for Difference (CfDs).Planning delays make these paper positions even more valuable.

Lies Sold, Truth Buried 😡🙈

The official story from CCC & DESNZ:“Cheap wind will cut bills”“Net Zero by 2030 is inevitable”“Energy independence through renewables”The truth:Engineering ignored: Section 10 of the Climate Change Act 2008 says budgets must consider economic factors — but CCC advice bypasses infrastructure feasibility entirely.

Risk dumped on the public:

DESNZ structures Ofgem’s charges so consumers absorb losses while developers bank profits.Wasted infrastructure: Grid is overbuilt for unproven capacity because DESNZ’s AI framework has no delivery veto.No accountability: CCC reports “progress” but can’t enforce delivery; DESNZ ministers spin targets while failures go unpunished.

A Governance Trainwreck

🚂💥The Climate Change Act legally binds carbon targets without binding delivery obligations. CCC writes the numbers; DESNZ commissions the research; Ofgem signs the cheques. Billions flow into a speculative system designed to feed itself, not the grid.

The CCC’s Ideological Lock

Sections 4–10 of the Climate Change Act let CCC set carbon budgets with no engineering or economic reality checks.

Section 13 requires proposals to meet these budgets, but ignores whether the grid or supply chain can deliver.

DESNZ then pays friendly consultancies — like Aurora Energy Research and Energy Systems Catapult — to produce demand models that assume unbuilt capacity is already real.Former CCC chair Lord Adair Turner, now Aurora co-founder, typifies the revolving door between “independent” advice and commercial interest.

Grid Upgrades for Ghost Projects

🏗️👻DESNZ’s Offshore Transmission Network Review and Ofgem’s AI rules allow multi-billion-pound upgrades for capacity that exists only on paper. Costs are socialised via consumer bills. Legal challenges — like the Norwich–Tilbury line — rarely stop these works because the CCC targets override delivery reality.

Developers Laugh to the Bank

💰😈Under CCC-driven targets and DESNZ-approved rules, developers can:Lock in grid capacity years before securing planning consent.Flip projects for profit without building them.Collect curtailment payments as a guaranteed fallback.

Crony Cabal Runs the Show

🤝🕵️Mott MacDonald

🦁💸 – Feeds off HVDC and offshore contracts. Ex-director Mike Haigh has chaired renewable advisory bodies shaping policy that matches the firm’s commercial portfolio.AtkinsRéalis

🛠️🗣️ – Executives like Nick Roberts split time between DESNZ-commissioned studies and private developer work, with ties to offshore wind hubs that suggest procurement overlaps.Both operate within a DESNZ-controlled procurement environment where CCC targets drive the very projects they profit from.

Carbon Targets:

Blind AmbitionThe CCC dictates what must be built. DESNZ pays to justify how it can supposedly be done. Ofgem spends to make it look like progress. None of them are bound by law to ensure it’s physically possible. The result? A high-stakes casino of speculative infrastructure where insiders win and consumers lose.

Billions on Wind Waste — Time to Act

💥⚡💸The CCC and DESNZ have hard-wired failure into UK energy policy. They push binding targets without delivery checks, pour billions into ghost infrastructure, and let developers bank risk-free profits.We need legal probes into conflicts of interest, curtailment abuse, and false modelling — and an end to the CCC/DESNZ target machine that builds ideology, not power.It’s time to stop funding the fantasy and start building an energy system that works.