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Cutting the ‘green crap’ has added £22bn to UK energy bills since 2015 (www.carbonbrief.org)

submitted 4 months ago by rimu@piefed.social to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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£9bn due to not having built more cheap onshore wind, £5bn due to poorly insulated homes, £5bn due to low solar deployment, £3bn because new homes were built less efficient.

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[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 46 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Another incredibly frustrating thing for me is the amount of regular people adamantly against any green energy being built near them. Which basically means no where in the country.

Would these people prefer a coal plant??

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 28 points 4 months ago (2 children)

That's the right wing media for you. I don't have them blocked in my newsfeed so I can see what they are up to and it is a completely different world - pretty much anything green gets hammered.

[–] CaptObvious@literature.cafe 16 points 4 months ago

Bless you. I do have them blocked. I don’t need the aggravation in my life.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 4 months ago

We need to start calling it blue, not green.

[–] PixelTron@lemm.ee 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My reply to them is: “Would you prefer to live next to a nuclear plant, or some turbines/solar fields?”

[–] bluGill@kbin.run 6 points 4 months ago

@PixelTron@lemm.ee

@rimu@piefed.social @breadsmasher@lemmy.world I've lived next to both, and it makes no difference. Both are good neighbors. I won't live near coal power plants or oil refineries though.