UKGrid security furore continuesArguments over last week’s near-miss blackout continue. David Rose set out the story in Unherd. Kathryn Porter explained the grid operator’s evasions on a pair of posts on her blog. (1, 2). UK chemicals extinctionSir Jim Ratcliffe, Britain’s richest man, warned that Net Zero policies are destroying the UK’s chemical industry, once a key pillar of the economy. NZW on the red team?Shadow energy secretary Claire Coutinho called for government to set up a ‘red team’ to sense-check policy, with Net Zero Watch director Andrew Montford suggested as a key recruit. No new grid applicationsWith a bonanza of subsidies available, dozens of companies are applying for new grid connections. Unable to deal with the backlog, the system operator closed the list to new applicants. Boiler tax imposedWhile MPs backs were turned, the government sneaked the so-called ‘boiler tax’ onto the statute books. Mr Miliband admitted that heat pumps may never be cheaper than boilers. The no-plan Net ZeroConservative leader Kemi Badenoch said that the Net Zero target had been imposed without any idea of how it would be delivered.
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