By Paul Homewood
The Telegraph is reporting that the National Grid boss, John Pettigrew, is advising Miliband to reject zonal pricing, because it is a unneeded distraction.
But more significantly he has warned that the huge investments needed to help the grid hit net zero would inevitably mean bills rise over the next decade, with cash set to be used to help the grid connect with offshore and Scottish wind farms.
The idea that you can spend £100 billion on grid upgrades and not push prices up as a direct result was always dishonest.
He went on to say that this will also generate savings in the long run as it will prevent the UK from having to pay wind farms to switch off by increasing capacity.
Utter balderdash, Mr Pettigrew! What you mean is that bills will go up even more to pay for constraints if we don’t spend that £100 billion.
A choice of being burnt or scalded!