I would desperately like to see UK government decouple the price of electricity from gas. We have just about the most expensive consumer energy prices in the world…but lazy journalism won’t get us there.
This piece is a recycled press release from a think tank…admittedly not a rightwing one, but it’s not based on the kind of research you might find in a journal.
People quoted are the director of the think tank, Common Wealth and the guy who wrote the report, Donal Brown, but they’ve not even explicitly said it’s his report.
It’s a lovely idea, the decoupling, but I spent four years of my career working with energy economists, so I was curious who this Donal Brown was:
https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p283676-donal-brown
He’s appears to know a lot about retrofit and science and technology policy, but energy economics:
He’s done a 3 day course.
I think it’s useful for the conversation to be publicly aired about the decoupling of electricity from gas prices.
But I think we also all watched the #Tories spend 14 years making policy on the back of think tank lobbying, rather than proper research. #Labour must not fall into this trap and think there are easy wins without unintended consequences.
Juggling With Eggs
queer as in fuck your borders