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"Madam President, a recent study from the Westminster Parliament indicates that current green policies will cost UK energy users as much as GBP 300 billion by 2030. This will do huge economic damage, yet both the National Grid and our energy regulator Ofgem are warning that over-reliance on intermittent renewables, coupled with the closure of baseload capacity forced by the Large Combustion Plant Directive, threaten power outages this winter. The National Grid has responded by doing deals with the owners of diesel generators. Madam President, you could not make it up. We are going to save the planet and cut CO2 emissions by relying on diesel generators for backup. They are also looking at what they call ‘demand management’. I call it supply failure. It is getting factories to agree to close at peak demand times.
In medieval times, folk who could not afford candles went to bed at sunset. They ground their corn in windmills which stood idle on calm days. By contrast, we are accustomed to secure supplies of energy available at the flick of a switch, but now these green policies threaten to send us back to the dark ages where our own power supplies are vulnerable to the vagaries of wind and weather, with dire social and economic consequences. In my party we demand secure and affordable energy for homes, for pensioners, for industry. We want an end to fuel poverty. For these reasons, we oppose the Commission’s energy package and we oppose its obsession with renewable energy."@en1
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