UKMiliband refuses to publish China-UK energy agreementEd Miliband is under increasing public pressure to explain why he will not publish the UK’s March 2025 energy cooperation agreement with China, despite facing questions in Parliament and before a select committee. In the Commons, when challenged by Shadow Energy Secretary Claire Coutinho, he dismissed concerns as a “wacky conspiracy theory that she gets on the internet”. He later appeared before the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee, where he was asked repeatedly why the agreement has not been disclosed and refused to answer the question seventeen times. READ OUR CAMPAIGN DIRECTOR’S OP-ED CALLING ON MILIBAND TO PUBLISH THE DEAL HERE. Unite threatens early disaffiliation from LabourLabour's biggest union backer has expedited its plan to disaffiliate with Labour, having launched a consultation with its members on the proposal this week. According to Sky News, Unite is now moving forward plans to divorce the party at their annual conference in September. Net Zero Watch understands that growing concerns amongst members about the green agenda is being cited as one of the reasons for this push. Tony Blair’s think tank accuses Miliband of pushing up energy billsTony Blair’s thinktank has accused Ed Miliband of driving up energy prices in a report criticising the government’s green policies and urging the energy secretary to drop some of them altogether, including almost completely decarbonising the electricity system by 2030. Greedy wind farms gaming the systemWind farm owners who earn huge payouts from gaming Britain’s energy system face a crackdown under new reforms proposed by power grid bosses. The National Energy System Operator warned that companies were deliberately clogging up Britain’s energy system to boost their own revenues. This is because wind farms can be paid to switch off when the grid becomes too congested to transport their power, allowing traders to game the system. Centrica: UK electricity prices set to cost more than post-Ukraine invasion New projections from Centrica show that the UK energy system will be one where, by 2030, the electricity price will be higher than it was at the peak of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The boss of Centrica has warned that one-third of the cost of that electricity will be wholesale costs and the other two-thirds will be system costs.
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