Response to rise in UK energy bills

Bob Ward, Policy and Communications Director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science, said: “This rise in energy bills is driven by the wholesale cost of natural gas and has nothing to do with the Government’s policies to achieve net zero emissions of greenhouse gases. 

“Unfortunately there are some British politicians who will try to fool the public into believing that climate policies are responsible when it is our dependence on expensive fossil fuels that is making us colder and poorer. The only way to cut energy bills is to use cheap clean British renewables instead of expensive natural gas for heating and electricity. And approving new gas production in the North Sea will make no difference to bills because it will be sold on international markets and not at a discount to British households and businesses.”