Zonal Pricing Confirmed Dead Thanks to No10 Fears of Reform – Guido Fawkes

Zonal Pricing Confirmed Dead Thanks to No10 Fears of Reform

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Last night the Guardian confirmed Guido’s story that proposals for zonal pricing were set to be dropped. Tomorrow’s news today…

The plan would vary electricity prices according to demand across the country. As Guido reported six days ago the decision was elevated to Downing Street/the Cabinet Office over fears of a political backlash. A potential next Reform government was set to benefit…

Miliband is now back to the drawing board and asking around for ideas on how to get bills down – including “paying battery storage companies to build major capacity in Scotland, or paying them to turn up their capacity on particularly windy days.” For now the grid – and taxpayers – are paying through the nose to turn off wind farms…