“Ditching the Net-Zero dogma and implementing our Cheap Power System could save Havering £54 million a year” say Conservatives

This week, Conservatives exposed the hidden costs of net zero in a new report which reveals families can save the equivalent of £540 per year if the government prioritises cheap power.

In a report commissioned by the Conservatives, Onward compares the cost of a Net Zero electricity grid compared to one which prioritises cheaper power. The Cheap Power system saves consumers over £320 billion over 20 years, makes Britian’s electricity structurally a third cheaper by 2050, and is still nearly 80% clean.

The Cheap Power system builds a bit more gas, a lot more nuclear and far fewer renewables than in the Net Zero grid. It makes nearly half its savings from having to build far fewer pylons and cables to connect far-off wind and solar farms into the grid. The rest comes from lower wholesale costs, spending less money switching wind farms off when it’s too windy, and fewer subsidies.

It means that families across Havering could see a £540 saving on electricity costs each year for the next 20 years.

Just 10 per cent of UK emissions are in electricity generation. The vast majority are in heating, transport, and the rest of the economy. Havering has come a long way to reduce emissions. Under the Conservatives, energy consumption was reduced by 69% in Havering. And in the last 20 years, the council has cut CO₂ emissions by 35%.

The Conservatives say that they are the only party doing the hard work to deliver a plan for affordable and reliable energy. Their Cheap Power Plan, which includes scrapping green levies and Getting Britain Drilling in the North Sea, will bring bills down for households and ensure businesses get the energy they need at prices they can afford.

Kemi Badenoch, Leader of the Conservative Party said:

“Britain needs a serious plan to deal with climate change. Seriousness means looking at results, not simply setting targets and congratulating ourselves afterwards. Current Net Zero targets have driven up energy costs, weakened our industrial base, and made us more dependent on energy imports, while doing too little to make the country more resilient to floods, droughts, and other consequences of the changing climate.”

In her speech this week, Shadow Energy Secretary Claire Coutinho is said:

“We Conservatives are not in denial about climate change, it’s the Left who are in denial about the fact their climate policy is failing.

Rather than forcing people to do what we want, our job as politicians should be to lift the barriers in their way. That’s why we should focus all our attention on making electricity cheap and then let consumer choice be king.

That is the only approach that will work in the long term.”

Speaking on the issue locally, Chairman of Dagenham and Rainham Conservatives, Matej Travnicek said:

“Havering deserves better than policies that negatively interfere with how we live our lives. It is time to ditch the Net-Zero dogma. On the one hand we have virtue signalling from the left and on the other we have Reform promising what people want to hear but delivering very little. Only the Conservatives have a plan to support the environment alongside cheap power. Our Cheap Power Plan will save Havering residents £200 a year by cutting green subsidies, axing the Carbon Tax and removing VAT for three years. The report takes the cuts to bills further and represents savings of £54 million combined on electricity bills each year across Havering

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