{"id":45872,"date":"2019-08-18T09:33:54","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T08:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=45872"},"modified":"2019-08-18T09:33:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T08:33:54","slug":"the-crisis-in-global-warming-means-we-have-to-end-the-obsession-with-energy-markets-and-get-on-with-zero-net-carbon-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/08\/18\/the-crisis-in-global-warming-means-we-have-to-end-the-obsession-with-energy-markets-and-get-on-with-zero-net-carbon-instead\/","title":{"rendered":"The crisis in global warming means we have to end the obsession with ‘energy markets’ and get on with zero net carbon instead"},"content":{"rendered":"

As The Observer notes<\/a> this morning:<\/p>\n

Thousands of homes could lose their energy supplier in the coming months as a result of a financial shock looming over the industry\u2019s smaller companies.<\/p>\n

Suppliers are due to pass on millions of pounds\u2019 worth of renewable energy subsidies, collected via energy bills, to the energy regulator, Ofgem, by the end of the month.<\/p>\n

This deadline has in the past proved fatal for financially unstable energy suppliers, and it is feared that a string of collapses may follow in the coming months.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I am sure this is an issue. I am equally sure this is not the energy issue we now need to be worrying about.<\/p>\n

It is almost absurd that when we face a global heating crisis what is of concern in the UK energy market is the fate of small companies trying to make a buck out of a failed system of energy privatisation that has very largely led to consumer rip off, limited real energy supply transformation, and a system so lacking in co-ordination that it can be claimed that when these companies fail people are left without energy suppliers when glaringly obviously the supply to their properties still exists.<\/p>\n

If we are to get serious about tackling global heating the nineteen-eighties obsession with energy market reforms needs to be replaced with energy policy intended to deliver zero net carbon as the only issue of real priority.<\/p>\n

And in the process we should also have single, fair, tariffs for all so that the age of rip-off ends forever.<\/p>\n

This is what the Green New Deal requires. And we need it now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As The Observer notes this morning: Thousands of homes could lose their energy supplier in the coming months as a result of a financial shock
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