Government mandated subsidies for wind and solar represent the greatest wealth transfer since England’s ‘Bad’ King John sought to tax himself to ultimate power and his enemies out of existence. His description as “avaricious, miserly, extortionate and moneyminded” applies with equal force to today’s crony capitalist kings – the renewable energy rent seekers.
Had King John known of mandated renewable energy targets, extortionate taxpayer funded subsidies, production tax credits, renewable energy certificates, etc, he would have, no doubt, taken delight in applying them to his fiscal advantage.
His Reign ended with his death in 1216, with economic chaos, poverty and disease stalking the land.
That was then. This is now. But, for the poor, times haven’t changed all that much, in relative terms.
Greed and avarice are still the driving force behind the extortionate transfer of wealth from power consumers and taxpayers to wind and solar outfits, all by government diktat and decree.
In Britain alone, that transfer is running at a cool £10,000,000,000 every year, with that figure set to rise in a manner that King John would, no doubt, approve; thanks to ‘Bonkers’ Boris Johnson and his plan to squander a further £50,000,000,000 on subsidies and over-the-market contracts for intermittent offshore wind power.
As the Global Warming Policy Forum points out it’s a model by which the rent seekers will continue to take the ‘gold’ and the poor will continue to get the ‘stick’.
GWPF calls on Government to suspend £10 billion green levy on suffering households
Global Warming Policy Forum
Press Release
28 January 2021
London, 28 January: In the light of growing concern about a sharp rise in fuel poverty among millions of households, the Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF) is calling on the government to suspend immediately the green levies on energy bills, a cost that is now running at over £10 billion a year, mostly in support subsidies to renewable electricity investors.
This suspension should remain in place for as long as public health measures are needed to tackle the coronavirus, and pending further reforms.
About one third of the government’s climate policy impact hits households directly through their electricity bills, and since it is low-income households that use electric heating they are being disproportionately affected.
The other two thirds of this climate policy cost hits all households indirectly, through general cost of living, as industrial and commercial businesses pass on their additional energy cost to consumers. When a supermarket’s electricity bill goes up because of renewables subsidies the checkout price of a refrigerated pint of milk has to rise too.
This indirect impact is too little appreciated, even by charities concerned with fuel poverty, who are already beginning to express their concerns that the public health measures intended to address coronavirus are deepening problems for low-income households.
Action for Children has said:
We’re seeing mums and dads home schooling in the cold as they can’t afford to top up the meter, skipping meals to feed their children and asking us for winter clothing and food parcels.”
End Fuel Poverty has observed that
Fuel bills set to soar under latest work from home rules”, and noted that “working from home could cost some households an extra £45 per month more this winter in increased heating and electricity bills.”
A spokesman for the charity told the BBC that:
Increasing numbers of people right across the country are having to make the stark choice between heating and eating. As temperatures continue to hover around freezing and lockdown restrictions mean people are spending more time at home, so energy bills will soar.”
Citizens Advice has calculated that a further 600,000 households have fallen into fuel poverty due to previous lockdowns, and a similar or still more serious effect is feared due to the current lockdowns.
GWPF notes that because of the indirect impact on general cost of living the problem is actually much worse than it appears to be, hitting low-income households harder and affecting even middle-income households. Lockdown has exposed the UK’s electricity system as both technically and economically weak, due to over-dependence on renewables.
Grid management costs, already high before coronavirus at £1.5 billion a year, have rocketed during lockdown, as the Electricity System Operator has had to resort to extreme measures to balance the fluctuating wind and solar output during periods of both low and higher demand, and are now expected to be around £2 billion a year.
The full extent of this additional cost has yet to hit consumers, since suppliers have been permitted to defer payment to National Grid. If, as we fear, millions of households are simply unable to pay their bills when these charges are fed through, suppliers large and small may be tipped into financial difficulties, further deepening the crisis.
Dr John Constable, GWPF energy editor, said:
The new team at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Kwasi Kwarteng and Anne-Marie Trevelyan, face an unenviable choice. If they do nothing, consumer hardship will only get worse. But taking the necessary emergency action in the short run, and adopting a longer-term cost-minimisation strategy will mean admitting that the green policies are failing.”
STOP THESE THINGS 
Let the ‘Green’ Policies fail. Policy should be for the people, Governments should look after those who try to pay the bills including taxes before they even consider helping out the money hungry idol indoctrinators who have sucked so much from the public purse already. Why give them more if they are not doing anything more to help Nations begin to cope with the aftermath of the virus.
Why have they not offered the massive subsidies they have been handed back to the Government to spend on the needy or even given it to charitable organisations who are trying to cope with the fall out of the years of constraint that have left far too many people reliant on charity, or if they are not reliant then so many are and have been only just coping and getting further and further into debt, so also need assistance.
Its time all Governments everywhere put their people first and let the blood suckers look to their own resources to keep going. Resources which they have accumulated from public purses as well as the pockets of all those who use electricity – when its available.