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Bradford Council says communities are being consulted on an “abstract concept” — yet the Calderdale Wind Farm already appears in grid/TWR-linked data as a 312MW project. That raises serious questions about transparency, timing and trust. There is a growing problem with the Calderdale Energy Park proposal on Walshaw Moor.It is not just the scale of…

Across Yorkshire, the debate over solar energy is usually presented as a series of separate local planning disputes. One village objects to one solar farm. One parish council raises concerns about one battery site. One farming family fears the loss of one block of productive land. But when the data is examined properly — using…

Here’s a ready-to-use WordPress Classic Editor blog draft using your screenshots.The Subsidy Clock: Watch Britain’s Energy Subsidy Bill Rise in Real TimeI opened The Subsidy Clock today and took three screenshots within a short period.What I saw should concern every household, every pensioner, every business, and every taxpayer in Britain.The counter moved from:£131,779,933,649to:£131,779,940,968That is an…

The Government Is Still Building the Machine After Promising the Result Michael Shanks, the energy minister, has described offshore wind as the “backbone” of Britain’s future energy system. That phrase is revealing. If offshore wind is truly the backbone of the future system, then Britain should already have the industrial spine needed to deliver it.…

The public are being told that Britain is on a pathway to deliver a transformed electricity system by 2030.But when you strip away the political language, the glossy maps, and the slogans, the working grid data tells a very different story.The map may say “SSENT Pathway 2030”.The actual delivery dates say something closer to 2034,…

Today’s National Grid snapshot tells the story better than any ministerial speech. At the time of the screenshot, Britain was generating around 24.4GW of electricity. Gas was providing 7.38GW, or 23.1% of demand. Solar was producing around 9.4GW to 10GW, while wind was producing only around 3GW. That is the Net Zero problem in one…

The Climate Change Committee’s recent adaptation framing rests on a simple but powerful claim: Britain was built for a climate that “no longer exists”, and therefore public policy must now be reorganised around climate risks projected for 2°C of global warming by mid-century and, at the high end, 4°C by 2100. No serious policy-maker should…

There is another cost coming down the line for ordinary households   and most people have probably never heard of it. It is called the UK Emissions Trading Scheme, or UK ETS. On paper, it sounds technical, distant, and harmless. In practice, it could become yet another hidden Net Zero charge pushed through councils, waste contracts,…

The UK can rightly claim real expertise in offshore wind. We have built ports, marine engineering capability, operations and maintenance bases, specialist supply chains, and a workforce with skills that should be treated as a national asset. But that is only half the energy-security story. A turbine at sea does not make Britain energy secure…

Offshore wind may be a British success story, but the uncomfortable truth is this: we have built generation faster than we have built the grid to carry it. The UK may be second only to China in offshore wind, with more than 16GW installed, and the supply-chain ambition is real. But turbines at sea do…

The Coming Energy Price Shock Facing British Households My electricity tariff alone is rising by around 25% per kilowatt hour.Every appliance in my home now costs roughly a quarter more to run , despite years of promises that the UK’s energy transition would eventually make electricity cheaper.That single fact should alarm every household in Britain.Because…

For years, the British public was told that Net Zero was about cleaner energy, technological progress, and protecting the environment. Most people assumed it meant innovation , better power stations, cleaner industry, improved efficiency, and investment in the future.But that is not the direction things are taking.Instead, Net Zero is increasingly becoming about control.Control over…

Teesside: The Truth About Britain’s “Green Energy Hub”The Government and energy companies often talk about Teesside as if it is already a fully functioning clean-energy superhub powering Britain’s future.But when you actually examine the National Grid Existing Agreements (EA) Register, a very different picture emerges.The reality is more complicated — and it reveals how Britain’s…

For years, campaigners, engineers, and local communities have warned that Britain’s energy strategy was becoming detached from economic and engineering reality.Now, one of the country’s most senior energy executives has effectively admitted it.Simone Rossi, the chief executive of EDF Energy UK, has publicly called for a pause on new wind farm approvals, warning that Britain…

And when you combine the cumulative project maps with the EA Connections Register, the true scale becomes impossible to ignore.This i s no longer about one or two solar farms.It is the creation of an entire East Kent energy corridor stretching across Romney Marsh toward the Dungeness and Sellindge grid infrastructure.The cumulative mapping now shows…

The proposed South Brooks Solar Farm on the Dungeness Peninsula may become one of the clearest examples yet of how Britain’s energy policy has drifted away from engineering reality, environmental common sense, and rational planning.On paper, the scheme is marketed as another “green energy” project designed to help Britain reach Net Zero targets. In reality,…

By Shane Oxer — Campaigner for fairer and affordable energy The British public is repeatedly told that the solution to the country’s future energy needs is simple: build more solar farms, install more wind turbines, and trust the “clean power” transition being pushed by Ed Miliband, DESNZ, NESO, and the Climate Change Committee. But behind…

The situation unfolding at Port Talbot is a perfect example of how Britain’s energy and industrial policy has been driven by ideology first and engineering reality second. For years, politicians, quangos, and climate bodies have pushed the rapid dismantling of traditional industry in pursuit of Net Zero targets, insisting that replacement infrastructure would follow. Yet…

Scrap Miliband’s Net Zero Fantasy Before Britain Pays the Price For years the British public has been told that Net Zero would deliver:cheaper energy,greater energy security,economic prosperity,and a cleaner, more resilient electricity system.Instead, Britain now faces:some of the highest electricity prices in the developed world,rising balancing and transmission costs,increasing grid instability,mounting curtailment payments,industrial decline,and growing…