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E.ON tells ministers to come clean about green energy's cost to public
Senior energy executives have called on ministers to come clean about the costs of the Government's ambitious plans for a green energy revolution.
Government ministers have eagerly publicised in recent months tough new carbon reduction targets and an array of initiatives that will be needed to meet those demands, such as biomass and wind power generation and carbon capture and sequestration technology - "green" measures that play well with the electorate. ...But signs are emerging that energy companies are tiring of taking the flak for higher tariffs that are increasingly a direct result of government policy. Paul Golby, the head of E.ON UK, said: "We need our politicians to stand up to the mark a bit more and be honest about the costs. It doesn't come for free. Energy is going to cost more in the future."
April 9, 2008
by Danny Fortson
in The Independent
Senior energy executives have called on ministers to come clean about the costs of the Government's ambitious plans for a green energy revolution.
Government ministers have eagerly publicised in recent months tough new carbon reduction targets and an array of initiatives that will be needed to meet those demands, such as biomass and wind power generation and carbon capture and sequestration technology - "green" measures that play well with the electorate.
They have remained conspicuously quiet, however, about the inevitable knock-on effects this will have on household energy bills, content to stand by as energy companies are lambasted for rising... [continue via Web link]
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