You report that consultants have warned that including levies to electrical energy payments to assist low-carbon tasks will make it tougher for individuals to scale back their reliance on fossil fuels (Why the UK’s electrical energy prices are so excessive – and what may be finished about it, 20 April).
One technique to scale back these levies dramatically can be to scrap all deliberate nuclear energy stations. These embody the crazily costly Sizewell C, which has already acquired almost 2.5bn in subsidies earlier than it has even began building and which can price the invoice payer pricey, even with out the inevitable large price overruns that the French-state-owned EDF at all times incurs (assume Flamanville and Hinkley C); and the 4, probably six, new reactors to be constructed on a flood plain on the River Severn at Oldbury in Gloucestershire.
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