Will Hodson

[Will Hodson @hodsonwill]

@LewisStanding1 No, but they will generate tax revenue which can be used to support billpayers. Or indeed to invest in the electrification of our system. That's the point.

[Will Hodson @hodsonwill]

Britain has some of the highest electricity prices in the world.

We need to sort this problem now or become an economic backwater forever.

Here's how:

[Looking for Growth @lfg_uk]

Britain is in an Energy Emergency.

But the Government is FAILING TO ACT. They have no plan, no idea what to do, and they’re leaving us exposed.

So today we’re launching The LFG Emergency Energy Bill to SAVE OUR INDUSTRIES and GET BILLS DOWN

Here’s how it would get bills down IMMEDIATELY:

1️⃣ SCRAP all levies on energy bills. These stealth taxes on the British people are unnecessarily hiking up their bills by hundreds of pounds.

2️⃣ REOPEN THE NORTH SEA, and directly deploy the tax revenue generated to GET BILLS DOWN.

3️⃣ Stop new CfD contracts and launch an investigation into the system that signed them off. Last year, billpayers paid £1.5 billion for big renewable corporations to THROW ENERGY AWAY. By 2030, it’ll be £8 billion. The existing settlement is a national scandal.

4️⃣ Scrap Clean Power 2030 targets. These needless constraints have pushed civil servants to procure wind at any cost – and at huge expense to the British people.

5️⃣ DITCH the duties of energy regulators, NESO and Ofgem, towards Net Zero goals, so their only focus is to MINIMISE ENERGY COSTS, subject to security of supply.

6️⃣ Hold auctions for connecting to the grid, and directly deploy the revenue generated to GET BILLS DOWN

Our Emergency Energy Bill has cross-party support. It is ready to PASS IMMEDIATELY. It does what governments for the past 20 years didn’t – it takes RADICAL ACTION to SAVE OUR INDUSTRIES and GET BILLS DOWN.

There’s no excuse. Last week, the US suspended access to some of the world’s leading frontier AI models. Britain is vulnerable - and our energy prices are strangling our national security. We cannot afford to be at the mercy of other countries or events beyond our control any longer.

The Government needs to GET BILLS DOWN NOW or explain why they’re still letting this emergency destroy our future.

Force Westminster to ACT. Send our Bill to your local MP and sign our letter to the Prime Minister and Ed Miliband. GET BILLS DOWN, NOW!

[Will Hodson @hodsonwill]

@WileyWindyMoor1 Zinger.

[Will Hodson @hodsonwill]

BREAKING: wind fat cat supports wind gravy train

[Dale Vince @DaleVince]

This is becoming normalised - the misrepresentation of Britain’s green energy progress, the exaggeration of our grid issues.

This guy needs to do his homework, the cost of turning windmills off for a tiny percentage of the time is overwhelmed by the economic benefit - the rest of the time. It’s vital to see the whole picture not just the selected snapshot - lies, damn lies and statistics…..

And if there’s one thing that can bring bills down which remains in-explicably not done by government, despite Ed Miliband pretending that he has - it’s ‘breaking the link’ - so that we no longer pay gas prices for our own green energy. This will knock billions off our bills every year.

How about getting behind that @hodsonwill ?

https://t.co/Z6v3AZeGyW

[Will Hodson @hodsonwill]

@allnewtomorrow Charming

[Will Hodson @hodsonwill]

Hi Andrew, hi Ben. A key point of our Bill re levies is that the projects they fund will only survive if they pass a value for money test at the Treasury.

In reality, this means we would support the contracts to which we are committed, and we pull the plug on the moonshots being launched from DESNZ e.g. CCS.