DECC chose December 22nd to make over 50 announcements on its websites including on the FIT for solar, flooding the world with information Dec 22nd was obviously a good day to bury bad news.
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Business Green – James Murray – Davey accuses government of ‘butchering UK’s renewables on the basis of Alice in Wonderland economics’
Former Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey slams Conservative ministers, as Carbon Brief investigation reveals energy bills likely to be lower than thought in 2020
Former Energy and Climate Change Secretary Sir Edward Davey has launched a blistering attack on the government, accusing it of “butchering the UK’s renewables on the basis of Alice in Wonderland economics”.
Davey, who was knighted in the New Year’s Honours List and is currently chair of community energy specialist Mongoose Energy, offered the blunt assessment in response to revelations official government projections suggest average domestic energy bills will be lower in 2020 than previously thought.
An investigation by the Carbon Brief website today detailed responses to a long-running Freedom of Information request relating to the government’s levy control framework (LCF) spending cap for clean energy subsidies and ministers’ repeated assertion the cap is on track to be breached by £1.5bn in 2020, leading to higher energy bills for households. Ministers have repeatedly claimed steep cuts to renewable energy subsidies were urgently required to keep rising energy bills under control.