Labour’s net zero levies will become the main driver of household energy bills next year, overtaking gas prices for the first time, analysts have warned.
Green taxes as well as upgrades to the electricity grid will account for 60pc of energy bills from April 2026, Cornwall Insight said – far outweighing the actual cost of energy.
The shift undermines claims by Ed Miliband, the Energy Secretary, that gas prices are the primary cause of high bills. He has previously said that bills were high “because of our dependence on fossil fuels”.
FYI, the only 'fossil fuel' is coal (the UK has enough for several hundred years and burns cleaner than biofuels in modern power plants); oil and gas, to put it simplistically, are constantly percolating up through the earth's crust.
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