“The government is obsessed with cleaning up electricity generation, even though it accounts for a far smaller total of our emissions – around 10%. So that obsession is pushing up the price of electricity and making it more expensive for people to switch to a heat pump or electric vehicle.”

[COMMENTARY] It’s now abundantly clear that adding renewable energy power generation without sufficient backup and storage is likely a recipe for higher energy costs.
Why cheap power could matter more than clean power in the push for net zero, by Justin Rowlatt, April 15, 2026, BBC, UK.