Net Zero Watch director Andrew Montford has launched a scathing attack on the UK Government’s energy transition plans after disregarding a shock new report.
Speaking to GB News, Montford claimed that information from the Government regarding renewable energy “could best be described as disinformation”.
A report conducted by Professor Gordon Hughes, former energy advisor to the World Bank and Edinburgh University’s former head of economics, paints a grim picture of Britain’s energy future.
The study warned that the costs associated with producing electricity, maintaining the grid, and funding green subsidies will lead to dramatic bill increases by 2030.
Andrew Montford has hit out at Labour for disregarding a new study, which predicts Britons will be paying up to £900 a year more in bills
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Disregarding the report, Industry Minister Sarah Jones told GB News that she “didn’t agree with the findings at all”.
Discussing the report and Labour’s reaction, Montford told GB News that “the numbers coming out of the Energy Department really don’t rise much above the level of fantasy”.
According to Montford, Professor Hughes’s detailed study delivers a clear warning about the UK’s energy future.
“It’s quite clear that if we go down this road of abandoning fossil fuels and focusing on renewables instead, it’s going to cost us a lot of money,” he told GB News.
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The study warned Miliband’s net zero policies will lead to dramatic energy bill increases by 2030PAMontford also took aim at minister Sarah Jones’s recent comments on the energy transition.
“I’m very interested in the minister’s Sarah Jones’s comments because she essentially is gaslighting,” he said.
He accused the minister of contradicting Government policy: “She’s talking about gas, but we’re trying to move away from gas, apparently,” Montford pointed out.
He reiterated that Professor Hughes’s report demonstrates the financial implications of this strategy.
Montford told GB News that Labour are ‘gaslighting’ Britons with net zero ‘disinformation’
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Montford concluded his criticism by describing the government’s energy strategy as fundamentally flawed.
“That is a really ridiculous way of trying to plan the future energy system,” he told GB News.
He warned that the approach would have lasting financial consequences for the country.
“It’s going to cost us money almost every year,” Montford said.
His final assessment of the government’s renewable energy transition was blunt: “That’s bonkers,” he stated.