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By Paul Homewood
From Energy Live News:

Ed Miliband will warn the UK must “double down not back down” on clean energy as ministers move to break the link between electricity and gas prices, following the latest global energy shock.
Full story here.
It’s the usual head in the sand nonsense. The only real bit of news is this:
At the centre of the plan is reform of the wholesale pricing model.
Gas still sets the electricity price around 60% of the time, despite supplying a shrinking share of generation because of the marginal pricing system – where the most expensive power source sets the market rate.
That has left households and businesses exposed to global gas shocks even as cheaper renewable generation has expanded.
Ministers now want to reduce that exposure by encouraging older renewable and nuclear generators onto fixed price contracts supported by Treasury incentives.
Officials believe the shift could start to feed through into lower bills within 12 months although the scale of savings remains unclear.
It’s hardly likely that older renewable generators will settle for anything much less than what they were being paid pre-Iran. There will therefore be no saving on bills once gas prices return to normal.
In reality, despite Miliband’s bluster, gas prices have already dropped from their spike of a few weeks ago, and are not much higher than their long term average:

It remains to be seen how much he offers for these fixed price contracts, but as the report says, “the scale of savings remains unclear”.
And as we know, the actual payments to older renewables, including ROC subsidies, is much higher than the price of gas power.If Miliband really wanted to bring down bills, the first thing he would do is abolish carbon taxes, which inflate the very market price he says is too high.
Yesterday the BBC enthusiastically spread this fake news accompanied by the strait forward lie that the high price of electricity is caused by the price of gas.
That piece by Justin Rowlatt on the cost of renewables… was a damage limitation exercise by the BBC
Well, then the UK will obviously have to install more wind and solar and stop all gas. That should fix the problem and lower the price. /s
For some bizarre reason, Ed Miliband is incredibly popular among Labour Party members. So if Keir Starmer is forced out of power, Ed Miliband will probably be the next prime minister. Lucky us.
Labour is currently polling at 16%
But will continue running the country until 2029, number of sitting MP’s matters not the polls. Knowing they are going to lose in 2029 I predict scorched earth policies especially from Mad Ed.
Two words: We’re fnucked.
Yesterday mad Ed struck the first dagger lining himself up for ‘an untarnished by Mandelson’ return to the leadership of the party and this time, the country. Put bluntly, it’s way, way worse than we thought. Another contender for Stalin’s job, the well tarnished Angela – I have to pay taxes? – Rayner, wasted no time.
Rayner praises ‘my friend’ Ed Miliband’s net zero drive
Support fuels speculation the former deputy prime minister will launch a leadership pact
Angela Rayner has praised her “friend” Ed Miliband’s net zero drive, raising speculation of a potential leadership pact… – Telegraph
The point being that the political crisis gives more than ample cover for the mad monk to do as he pleases; everyone is looking the other way. And I’m sure mad Ed will be more than pleased with the performance of the supine media on the climate/net zero narrative.
If fingernails Starmer is still hanging on come May 7th it will only be because the entire Labour parliamentary party lacks a single spine.
Milibrain strikes again…
You mean Ed Mini-Brain?
Renewables are the way forward
Five European countries will save 58% on energy bills this year thanks to clean power
Just-stop-oil trump is accelerating it.
You tried this yesterday and failed. What is different today?
It is still true today and the article is new.
The facts haven’t changed. The losses and costs are going up and up.
One recent gem you posted a link to was:
“Even if climate change is not real”
When we know full well it is, and is the result of natural variation. Yes we add a bit, and that is all. I did say you need a new hobby. Others were not quite so kind.
Germany closed its nuclear and has gone back to coal as a result. Incidentally, 5 EU nations is a whopping 18.5%
Germany did not replace it with coal and climate change is human made. But I’m here for funny articles about energy, not climate change.
“Germany did not replace it with coal “
No, it kept its existing coal going instead of closing it. For obvious reasons – like keeping the lights on.
climate change is human made
I honestly believe that your case could provide enough material for an entire conference of psychiatrists.
I wonder what other people make of that statement?
It is currently impossible to quantify how much of the modest beneficial warming of the last century is natural or man-made. Anybody claiming otherwise is either lying or delusional.
MUN is quite clear on the matter: climate change is human made
In the real world he can easily make the assertion, but he has less than a net zero chance of providing even a scintilla of evidence for it.
That’s religion.
“Climate Change” as defined by the IPCC .. ie warming by enhanced atmospheric CO2..
… is nothing but an imaginary human construct.
but, but, but scientists say…. /s
Yes, he can assert it, but he can’t prove it.
And notice he didn’t try to prove it, not even a link.
bingo!
Can I ask you to respond with hard facts about climate change and not personal abuse? Facts are funny things – they endure when all the rhetoric has been forgotten. Here in Australia the hard facts are that agricultural output is increasing. This is what is important.
You can ask what you like. You’re going to be disappointed [here] if you think I was harsh.
Coal, oil and gas provide FAR MORE of Germany’s energy than wind and solar
You certainly find a lot of funny articles about energy. The Euro News article you linked is hilarious!
Germany is reportedly considering returning to coal because they need cheap reliable power.
As for climate change, there’s no evidence it’s manmade or anything out of the ordinary.
Like some AI, he can’t remember the last chat. 🙂
And more lies spewed by our resident peak lie spewer.
I’m inclined to think this entity believes whatever its handlers tell it. No matter how absurd it might be.
More ludicrous propaganda from Euronews. The five countries mentioned all have very high electricity prices caused by wind and solar power.
And their industrial base is being decimated because of it.
Yes, please speed up use of only wind and solar energy- leaving more ff for the rest of us. 🙂
Stop being such a sycophant shill. Until cheap reliable storage is available, as long as fossil fuels and nuclear have to fill in at full peak capacity when wind and solar produce 0% of the electricity, the grid has to maintain two systems. It cannot be cheaper than maintaining just the backup reliable system, and it cannot function at all with just the unreliable renewable one.
Just stop it. It’s pathetic.
MUNR,
Those of you on the east side of the Atlantic are hardly in a position to boast to us here in the United States about the path forward regarding electricity generation. I asked GROK to compare Europe’s electricity rates to our rates here in the United States.
GROK’s reply:
“Electricity rates (retail prices for households) are generally significantly higher in Europe than in the United States, often 1.5–2+ times higher on average depending on the country, time period, and whether taxes/levies are included. Wholesale prices also tend to be higher in the EU, though some Nordic countries with abundant hydro can be competitive in certain periods or markets.
Recent Average Residential (Household) Prices
Broader global trackers (e.g., Q1 2026 or late 2025 data) show:
Key Reasons for the Difference
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Europe is its own worst enemy by not fracking for natural gas. Please note the bullet points under “Key Reasons for the Difference”. Doesn’t sound as though transitioning to renewables really does Europe’s rates any good, although I acknowledge that rates are rising here in the U.S. as well.
I don’t know which is worse MUNR, your cluelessness or Europe’s refusal to acknowledge its own slow but steady self-inflicted economic pain.
Who is paying him? Follow the money, he clearly has an agenda in direct opposition to the welfare of the people of England.
Yes, someone should be looking for offshore accounts.
He probably has sincere belief in the expert opinions that he follows. That is likely why he s unable to observe the reality that what he is doing is not working. This is common in many educated people, especially academics. Their entire position in society falls a apart if those opinions are false. Very anti science.
Naw, he has said tearing down England and expanding EU is his goal, all in pursuit of Marxism and punishing the people of England who have repeatedly rejected him, just as they rejected his father. Vengeance using Marxist ideology all while sucking up as much money as he possibly can for himself. Typical Marxist.
Mad Red Milibean has no interest in Net Zero. His sole objective is the destruction of capitalism in pursuit of his Marxist father’s obsession. He is well on the way to achieving that objective. In the UK at least.
Adolphe the brave fled to England in 1940 and set about hating us and our way of life – especially capitalism.
And if you go back, only two nations broke the absolute stranglehold of the feudal Guilds: England and the Netherlands.
Nice cartoon at the top!
My 3 favourite fun movies are Blazing Saddles, One Flew over the Cockoos’s Nest and Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. The cartoon draws on the latter. Geoff S
Miliband has one objective and that is to destroy the UK. He is a marxist at heart. He has no understanding of science. His Net zero vioews have no justification whatsoever. He must be asked to give plausible reasons for his stupidity and war against fossil fuels.
Many educated people believe that expert opinion is science. Ed is probably one of those.
Carbon taxes, yes, but also the North Sea.
Green Energy Ideologists are OBLIVIOUS that electricity came AFTER oil, as ALL electrical generation methods from hydro, coal, natural gas, nuclear, wind, and solar are ALL built with the products, components, and equipment that are made from oil derivatives manufactured from crude oil.
· Without Crude Oil there can be no Electricity!
In addition, electricity can charge an iPhone, but neither wind turbines nor solar panels can MAKE an iPhone, thus everything that needs electricity consists of products that are also made from oil derivatives manufactured from crude oil.
· Without Crude Oil there will be no products like iPhones, X-ray machines, computers, etc., that NEEDS electricity!
Planes, ships, trucks, and cars do not run on raw crude oil, they run on transportation fuels manufactured FROM crude oil by multi-billion-dollar refineries.
Electricity existed for far longer than oil 😛
As has already been said a million times, it’s about burning fossil fuels first and foremost.
Electricity existed for far longer than oil
The global flora – no ice caps – that give us what you term fossil fuels (which incidentally, like wind and solar are free) was laid down from the Carboniferous onward. Several hundreds of millions of years ago.
You were saying…
When did electricity appear?
do you mean DC or AC?
When did electricity appear?
European or African?
NB The theoretical basis for understanding electricity began in the 1800s…
Your first answer was not about our understanding of oil…
Man has been using fossil fuels for many ,many centuries longer than they have been using electricity.
The earliest documented use of coal dates back to around 25,000–23,000 BC in Europe.
Oil from coal and tar dates back to the 9th century.
When the first bolt of lightning happened? I assume you meant “when did we first harness electricity”, but you don’t seem bright enough to phrase it properly.
Totally WRONG again..
Coal and tar oils have been around since the 9th century, when kerosene and paraffin were distilled by the Persian scholar “Razi”. It was used as a lubricant , and for lighting.
Yes, modern civilisation exists first and foremost because of the burning of fossil fuels.
The early electrical generation was built by coal/steam powered industry and construction.
And often powered by coal.
Net Zero…why?
The transition to renewable energy is intended to facilitate a shift toward agrarianism, stewardship-based models not ownership, and centralized global governance with soft-tech monitoring and control. The move away from high-density, fossil-fuel-based industrialization, while sidelining nuclear and geothermal, is not a mere energy policy change, but is a deliberate restructuring of civilization.
Renewable sources—which are inherently diffuse and low-density—are physically incapable of supporting a modern, high-energy, industrial society. The shift to renewables is essentially a managed transition toward a post-industrial, “neo-agrarian” society.
Because renewables require vast land footprints to produce energy at scale, this inevitably places large portions of land under central management or restriction. This returns society to a state where land use is dictated by “stewardship” rather than private ownership, effectively limiting the expansive development associated with free enterprise.
While proponents frame renewable energy as “democratizing” power, it decentralizes energy to a degree that makes the modern industrial grid unfeasible, forcing localized production that mirrors 19th-century agrarian patterns of life and consumption.
A core component is the distinction between private ownership and public/corporate stewardship.
The World Economic Forum’s “Great Reset” initiative is a blueprint for the “Stakeholder” Shift. Moving from “shareholder capitalism” (individuals own assets) to “stakeholder capitalism” (corporate and state actors manage assets for the “common good”) is an intentional effort to replace personal property with a model of “stewardship”, in effect modern day serfdom.
This Service-Based Economy often references the “You’ll own nothing” narrative—a prediction that technological and economic shifts will eventually make ownership of property and consumer goods obsolete, replacing them with a service-based model where people “rent” their lives from centralized entities.
Renewables are the engine of global governance. Because renewable energy systems are complex, require massive grid redesigns, and are tied to climate-change mitigation, they demand unprecedented levels of international coordination.The political need for “climate action” provides the necessary justification for empowering international bodies (like the UN or the WEF) to set global standards that supersede national policies and personal freedom.
The “Great Reset” vision is a call to use the economic disruption of crises (like the pandemic or climate change) to solidify this new global order. Climate policy is the lever used to harmonize global regulations, tax energy usage, and manage the transition to a lower-energy, more centrally soft-tech monitored and controlled global economy.
This is not an accident but an engineered convergence. Industrial reality is constrained. Renewable energy cannot power industrial civilization at current levels. The resulting scarcity forces a transition from industrial consumption to a more controlled, low-energy, agrarian-like existence.
Governance is centralized superceding national sovereignty. The necessity of managing this transition will be used to justify a global governance framework that replaces individual ownership with corporate or state-managed “stewardship.” This is the primary reason why heavy industry is being pushed into relocating—to remove industrial independence, thereby making the transition to this new governance model inevitable.
You are probably right about that. Most of us don’t want to believe that that dystopian vision can actually be acheived. Western leaders are mostly committed to it.
An age of organised poverty. Fascism.
He’s doubled down so many times that he’s now staring at his own backside.
He’s not playing with a full deck.
You cannot reason someone out of position they didn’t reason themselves into. Milibrain has had plenty of time and exposure to other ideas but it appears he is beyond help.
It’s got nothing to do with climate change.
Miliband is a science/engineering ignoramus, bottom line is he’s a raving control freak communist. Trying to explain to him the difference between a primary source of energy and the transport mechanism of it for use is a waste of time.
You just can’t get dumber than government.