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To the planning inspectors, policy advisers and Whitehall lobbyists reading environmental statements from behind a desk, this is a warning , not a slogan.What you are seeing across South Yorkshire, the Humber and the Don catchment right now is not a theoretical risk, a worst-case scenario, or a “modelled outcome”. It is reality.Fields submerged. Roads…

Seventeen years after the passage of the Climate Change Act 2008, the practical outcomes of the UK’s Net Zero strategy are now visible across household bills, industrial competitiveness, grid stability, and land use. While the policy was sold as a route to affordability, resilience, and green prosperity, the evidence increasingly shows the opposite. Rather than…

The screenshot does not show a single bad hour or an unusual dip in generation. It shows average UK electricity output over an entire winter week. During that week, the UK’s installed solar capacity of roughly 22 GW delivered an average output of around 0.5 GW — just 2–3 per cent of nameplate capacity.[1] This…

No Grid = No Approval In a quiet but highly significant development, the proposed Kilnside Energy Park in Rutland , a large solar and battery scheme promoted by Aukera , has reportedly been withdrawn from the planning process. There has been no dramatic announcement and no formal admission of failure. Instead, the developer used a…

When a serving European prime minister describes a central pillar of EU energy policy as “the stupidity of the century,” it is more than rhetoric. It is an admission that something has gone badly wrong. Last week, Bart De Wever, Prime Minister of Belgium, delivered a blunt assessment of Europe’s energy trajectory. Speaking at a…

In December, the National Energy System Operator (NESO) and Ofgem announced that Britain’s grid connections crisis had been fixed. “Gate 2” had cleaned the queue. A readiness test had replaced the old free-for-all. A pipeline of 283 GW of generation and storage to 2035 had been “unlocked”. But if you look at the maps ,…

Solar energy has been sold to the public as the clean symbol of modern progress. Silent, emission-free in operation, and powered by sunlight, it feels like the perfect antidote to fossil fuels. Panels now cover rooftops, car parks, deserts, and increasingly, farmland. For many, solar is not just technology   it is virtue made visible. But…

The quiet line buried in the lease between Doncaster Council and Peel Group explains more about the real delay to reopening Doncaster Sheffield Airport than any public statement so far: electricity use on the site must not exceed 1 MVA at any time. That figure is not a planning technicality. It is an electrical ceiling…

By Shane Oxer. Campaigner for fairer and affordable energy Richard Eden’s diary column wasn’t meant to be an environmental dispatch. It was a society story: titled landowners, old friends of princes, and a “500-strong rebellion” on a great estate. But he got one thing exactly right , and it changes the entire frame. He described…

The project, promoted by RWE, was first withdrawn in August 2025 after it became clear that the developer could not say with certainty where the scheme would connect to the electricity grid, or when that connection would be delivered. For a project seeking nationally significant status, that is not a minor omission. It goes to…

By any normal definition, an energy system that requires permanent state support, permanent price guarantees, permanent grid underwriting and permanent market rigging is not an energy system at all. It is a fiscal programme with turbines attached. This week, the Financial Times quietly reported that Britain’s renewable subsidy bill has climbed above £8 billion a…

🚨 THIS IS THE MOMENT: HOW TO STOP THE COUNTRYSIDE BEING SACRIFICEDFor months — even years — people across the country have been asking the same question:“Why does it feel like every field is under threat?”Solar farms.Battery sites.Substations.Pylons.Grid corridors.Always in the countryside.Always on farmland.Always “strategic”.Always pushed through even when communities object.Now we know why.The Government…

Britain’s energy crisis is no longer about fuel. It is no longer even about technology. It is about systems, incentives, and financial structures that have drifted so far from physical reality that they now require political management to survive. No company better illustrates this than Octopus Energy. The poster child of the UK’s Net Zero…

The next time you wince at the price of a loaf of bread or a basket of groceries, remember this: Britain is deliberately destroying the people who grow its food. Not by accident. Not by neglect. But by policy. We are told this is about the environment, about “transition”, about “sustainability”. In reality, it is…

Spain has just published the academic proof that battery storage collapses under its own weight. Across the UK , from Scotland to the South West , planners are approving exactly the same mistake at industrial scale. For years, Britain’s energy debate has been dominated by a comforting idea: that if we simply build enough batteries,…

By Shane Oxer — Campaigner for fairer and affordable energy For years, the British public has been told that the obstacles to Net Zero are merely political: planning delays, local objections, or a lack of “ambition”. If only the system moved faster, we are told, the transition would be painless and inevitable. But that story…

Britain’s energy policy has been sold to the public as a patriotic investment in affordability, security and decarbonisation. Ministers promise that renewables will bring down bills, drive investment and protect us from volatile gas markets. They even point to record offshore wind auctions and optimistic jobs figures as proof the transition is on track.tell a…

By Shane OxerCampaigner for fairer and affordable energy Kevin Hollinrake’s recent article arguing that Britain should protect its best farmland from solar farms is well-meaning, reasonable in tone , and completely detached from the reality of the system his party built and still governs under. This is not, as he seems to think, a planning…

After a decade of browbeating governments, investors and industries into abandoning reliable power, the architects of the green transition are finally starting to admit what many engineers warned from the start: you cannot run a modern economy on intermittent energy alone. Larry Fink of BlackRock has now said the quiet part out loud. Rushing headlong…