By Paul Homewood
h/t Joe Public
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Emma Pinchbeck is now head of the Climate Change Committee.
Six years ago, when she was Executive Director of Renewable UK, she proclaimed that CfDs would “secure low-cost energy for consumers”:
RenewableUK’s Executive Director Emma Pinchbeck has made a case for wind, wave and tidal energy to the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s (BEIS) Select Committee, which is now considering the findings of Professor Dieter Helm’s Cost of Energy Review.
“An energy system led by renewables is the lowest cost option for the UK. I’d bet my house on renewables. A smart energy system can deliver consumers savings of £8bn a year between now and 2030,” Pinchbeck told the Committee, further saying that Contract for Difference (CfD) auctions are the best way to secure low-cost energy for consumers, highlighting that cost reductions in offshore wind are “unprecedented in any other sector.”
https://www.offshore-energy.biz/emma-pinchbeck-to-beis-id-bet-my-house-on-renewables/
She she testified to the BEIS Select Committee, those same customers have had to pay over £10 billion in subsidies for CfDs:
https://dp.lowcarboncontracts.uk/dataset/actual-cfd-generation-and-avoided-ghg-emissions
And the cost this year is forecast to be £2.1 billion:
Is she a fit person to be in charge of the CCC?