#AceNewsReport – Feb.08: Germany’s coalition government, which includes the Green Party, had planned to abolish the renewable energy surcharge on electricity bills from 1 January 2023, but due to the energy crisis is considering cutting the green levies earlier to ease the strain of rising energy costs on households.

#AceNewsDesk Report: Government should follow Germany and scrap green levies on energy bills: John Constable & Capell Aris: A workable alternative to Net Zero. A plan for cleaner, reliable and affordable energy (pdf)

Tuesday 1st February 2022

According to news reports, even the German Economics and Climate Protection Minister Robert Habeck (Green Party) is supporting the early end of green levies on energy bills.

Direct subsidies for UK renewable energy investors – via the Renewables Obligation, the Feed-in Tariff and the Contracts for Difference systems – run to £10 billion a year, but there is a further £2 billion from the high system costs renewables bring to the grid.

Net Zero Watch has repeatedly called on ministers to remove these renewable energy subsidies from energy bills to help reduce mounting pressure on the general cost of living.

Cutting green levies from energy bills will also allow the Treasury, in the medium-term, to buy back these subsidy entitlements at a discount, and eventually cease to provide green energy subsidies in any form. Taxpayers cannot be expected to carry this burden in the long-term.

Dr Benny Peiser, Net Zero Watch director, said:

Boris and Rishi should, for once, follow the German example where even the ruling Green Party is in favour of scrapping green levies in order to ease the rising cost burden for ordinary families. If Boris Johnson’s government can’t manage what even the Green Party in Germany is willing to do, what’s the purpose of the Conservatives?” 

With mounting concern about the true cost of the Government’s Net Zero project the Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF) has publishing a realistic alternative that reduces CO2 emissions without inflicting astronomical costs on consumers.

Note for bloggers and journalists: Net Zero Watch has published a simple guide on a number of additional options available to the government to effectively solve the energy bills crisis in the short and medium term.

#AceNewsDesk report ………..Published: Feb.08: 2022:

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