From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
This is a wonderful new tool from Richard Lyon, author of The Energy Trap which will be published in September.
The new tool is chock full of drill-down data, sources and methodology. It is also continuously updated.
I remember when climate alarmists said that renewable energy would save Britain billions. Then they admitted that renewable energy would cost millions, then billions, then tens of billions and now hundreds of billions. I expect the final bill to be in the trillions at which point Britain will be bankrupt.
It is already bankrupt regarding Common Sense and Leadership.
The INDIRECT COSTS ARE 220 BILLION British pounds.
They are larger than the subsidies
They cover costs from windmill to landfill, grid extension/reinforcement, inefficiently operating other power plants to cover DUNKELFLAUTE,, curtailment payments, dismantling, storing in hazardous waste sites.
No wonder, Germany, and the UK, and Spain are going bankrupt and have become uncompetitive.
DRILL BABY DRILL
FRACK FOR GAS ASAP
No, the indirect costs are estimated to be £95B bringing the total to £220B
The estimates are explicitly listed as
Climate Change Levy £30.0bn
Grid upgrades for renewables (TNUoS) £29.4bn
Balancing the grid (BSUoS) £14.7bn
Emissions trading £12.3bn
Capacity Market £9.5bn
Quite a few line items were left out, meaning the 95 BILLION British pounds is grossly underestimated.
Also the time period is not given, and future costs are also not given.
Plus to double the wind and solar MW existing now, the costs per MW installed will increase exponentially, due to increased complexity and redundancy.
Operating and maintaining such a Rube Goldberg system will put you in the poor house, as Germany, Spain and UK have found out.
It also only tells us the cost per MWh — but not the one from an alternative system they would want. The 45.03 / MWh seem tame compared to
https://www.theenergytribune.com/energy-power/2026/02/20/252626
From the site:
In their fairy tale land the UK is actually able to build a new reactor without investors running away and assurances from the government that make your head spin.
Amazing
I thought they swim in money after brexit? /s
Just to clarify, as the annual percentage of ruinables electricity increases on the grid , one needs to install more and more MW of capacity for each MW of demand, due to complexity and redundancy.
In one way, Australia and Canada are fortunate in that they won’t run out of available land to infest with windmills and sunshine catchers (dream catchers?).
But the UK and other small area – large populations countries aren’t so blessed.
A false blessing
This is so sad. And I am thinking that the UK is getting more and more like Cuba. Crumbling infrastructure, no borders, and a useless Defence force. A ruling class utterly unable to see reality. Cuba is now desperately hoping that Chinese solar power might provide a small relief for their appalling situation. Solar panels that provide diffuse, intermittent power that has to be stored. And yet the UK spends money that it doesn’t have on renewables they don’t need. In Cuba, the best and brightest have left – is this happening with the UK?
We in Britain have been the playthings (think cat torturing mouse) of the socialists for so long…
Tax everyone to within an inch of insolvency…subsidise everything with public money behind it…and shut your ears to the howls of anguish…
According to the left, death and destruction is just a small price for other people to pay. Once their socialist paradise is finally built, nobody will remember these small inconveniences.
The ruinables subsidy is in effect a transfer of UK taxpayers and billpayers money to the Chinese Communist Party. Because, you know, they really need it.
Just think how many biolabs they could build!
You need deals for that. Take Wuhan
Lab Buildings – France
Scientific Training – CSIRO Australia
Contracts – Dr Fauci and friends.
Leak – sloppy biosecurity.
I gather the original deal was that France would help run the place. But as soon as it was built, the Chinese dumped the deal and kicked the French out.
Or how many rockets the impoverished UK could send to corrupt, NAZI-adoring Ukraine to further damage Russia, and further extinguish the Ukraine people in the process.
That population was 52 million in 1990, a year before independence, and now, in 2026, it is at most 25 million still under Kiev control, of which 10.5 million are retired on pension, whose children and grandchildren went abroad. The death rate is high, the birth rate is near zero.
Ukraine stretches from Boston to Chicago, about 1371 km. Not many people in such a large country.
Russia can go home any time it wants if they don’t like it. And you can join them, because somehow, I get the impression you don’t care one bit about Ukraine or its population.
Ukraine became an independent country in 1991.
Prior to that all that land had been part of the Russian Empire and the USSR for as much as 300 to 400 years.
How much do Germany, France and UK care about Ukrainians by giving them weapons so they can have losses of 1250 to 1450 per day (killed, seriously wounded, MIA)?
Think you are quoting the Russian loses, Ukraine loses are nothing like that because they have evolved to drone warfare. If the loses were at your claim Ukraine would have run out of soldiers by now.
As you note Ukraine became an independent country in 1991, the history before that doesn’t matter it was a legal process decided by the people of Ukraine. They are clearly willing to fight for that legal right and are not asking for troops from us, so provide them arms.
All you are really upset about is they are kicking Russia in the ass and at the end of the day it’s a matter for the Ukraine people not me.
I will say the images of burning oil tanks around Moscow was a little unexpected but Ukraine drones have come a long way.
Europe ships the bigger drones in boxes. They are assembled and launched in Ukraine, with targeting and satellite routing coordinates provided by NATO
LOL sure …. None of that changes the fact it’s not ending well for Russia.
writing complete BS.
You are just a Putin shill and have never been to Ukraine.
Ukraine has decades of experience making aircraft, but hey people like you don’t know that – so they are perfectly capable of making their own gear.
Currently all bets are up in the air; this clock is going to spin and spin unhindered.
Labour is far from united. Al Carns could be Brutus, he is against persecuting our veterans as Starmer etc want to do.
At least the media can wet its knickers about some decent weather…
Story tip – killing the garden trade
The boss of Britain’s biggest garden centre chain has warned that Ed Miliband’s rush to hit net zero risks saddling it with millions of pounds in extra costs…
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/06/23/milibands-net-zero-zealotry-cost-millions-garden-centre/
Behind a Paywall
Yousavemoney
https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/miliband-net-zero-zealotry-cost-060000074.html
Thanks Strat’
Starmer told the Media to cover up, told police not to investigate and arrest the cases related to the beastly and immoral behavior of some of the millions of degenerate Muslims, the dregs from Third world countries, that were encouraged to illegally enter Britain. The “immoral relaxed” attitude of authorities enabled those degenerates to continue to carry out the sexual atrocities related to the tens of thousands of gang rapes of many young women and school-age girls in Britain. All of the media refuse to report on these heinous crimes, because they were told not to. How low can leaders go?
At some point in time you run out of other people’s money.
Which means it’s time to get rid of your current “other people” and import new ones.
It is the politicians who are paying the energy subsidies, it doesn’t affect the citizens.
Are you alright, Victor?
It is the politicians who are paying the energy subsidies, it doesn’t affect the citizens.
The evidence is overwhelming that you are not well…
Apparently UK is a tax free haven according to victor .. who knew.
With that name he sounds like a Russian bot and good old Vlad is a bit upset with UK and it’s missile program with Ukraine 🙂
As a citizen, I would never accept paying politicians’ energy subsidies. The politicians themselves should be responsible for that and pay for it.
Do you mean that you stand up and pay for politicians’ energy subsidies?
We are not communist countries everyone pays for the subsidies via there taxes. Communism/Socialism all the money goes to the state and then they decide how much to give the citizens.
Either way you are paying for the politicians subsidies, just the order of who gets the money first differs.
The difference really is in a Western Economy we get to see how much money we are paying to the politicians. No-one would have a clue how much money Putin or Xi are putting in there pockets. Western politicians may line there pockets in other dubious ways but that is a whole other story.
Vladimir Putin’s exact net worth is unknown, but investigators estimate his wealth ranges anywhere from $100 billion to $200 billion. All that money is being ripped off from the Russia economy and people.
No income no taxes. No expenses no taxes.
China’s youth: Let it rot. It’s not worth the sacrifice.
https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/china-youth-unemployment-bai-lan-tang-ping-economic-shift-xi-jinping-125030500829_1.html
Ok nihilist
There is no point in fighting for the insignificant.
Insignificant people do insignificant things.
Significant people do significant things.
Insignificant leaders decide on insignificant things.
Significant leaders decide on significant things.
Do you support and fight for insignificant or significant leaders?
People who know the meaning of life know the difference between the insignificant and the significant.
Who sits and watches people doing insignificant things and thinks it is significant?
Do you have any proof?
I have put wheels on the underpins under my house.
Instead of a permanent residence, my house is considered mobile and I avoid house tax.
Something strange to your country most of us are likely scratching our heads “house tax” what the hell is that. A lot of countries have “income tax” which has nothing to do with your house just how much you earn.
Most countries have some form of tax on property ownership. Ownership rights are being eroded more and more. Freedom is being stifled and the oppression of citizens is increasing.
I think you article in trying to class different systems together like that causes confusion and is misleading.
For example the article says Australia has annual property tax which is incorrect for a domestic home owner. There is if you own multiple residences, foreign nationals and some companies.
We do pay local council rates but that is for the provision of services like rubbish collection, footpaths, libraries etc but it isn’t a property tax as such.
Given your print out gets Australia totally wrong I have no confidence it actually represents other countries correctly either.
You do get I am not Russian and it doesn’t matter to me 🙂
Subsidies for the Energy Transition
The “Energy Transition” is only an “Electricity Transition”.
To start with, there is no such thing as “renewable” energy, as it violates the First Law of Thermodynamics. Electricity from wind turbines and solar panels are 100% dependent on favorable weather conditions offered by free wind and sunshine.
Wind turbines and solar panels ONLY generate electricity but CANNOT make any products or transportation fuels for life as we know it.
Crude oil by itself is useless black tar, unless you build a multi-billion-dollar refinery to break it down to produce various types of transportation fuels like, jet fuel for planes, diesel fuel for trucks, gasoline fuel for cars, and bunker fuel for ships, and the oil derivatives manufactured from crude oil that are the basis of more than 6,000 products in our materialistic world.
Wind turbines and solar panels ONLY generate electricity but CANNOT make any products or transportation fuels for planes, trucks, cars, or ships.
It costs 100 million times more to stop climate change than live with it. No country on earth has stopped climate change regardless of money spent. So having failed, they will spend more.
For the billions of euros the EU spent to prevent climate change, why is Europe suffering under a heat dome?
May I get my 10%?
Jeez, that’s almost as much money as they’ve given to Ukraine.