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The UK’s ‘Net Zero Straitjacket’: Crushing Costs And Wishful Thinking

Britain’s Net Zero policies are driving up energy prices, hurting industry, and stripping away energy sovereignty.

by Harry Wilkinson, guest post
June 05, 2025, 9:59 AM
in Electric Vehicles (EVs), Energy, Money & Finance, News and Opinion, Politics
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The Net Zero Straitjacket: Five Reasons Net Zero Will Bankrupt Britain
has been published today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). It describes how Britain’s Net Zero target locks in higher energy prices and forces ministers to restrict the public’s choices. [emphasis, links added]

In this damning new analysis, Harry Wilkinson, Head of Policy at the GWPF, outlines how Net Zero policies, rooted in the Climate Change Act, are driving energy prices higher, crushing industrial competitiveness, and stripping the UK of energy sovereignty.

“With admirable impartiality, Wilkinson has explained the devastating cost of Net Zero,” said Steve Baker, the Chief Provocation Officer at The Provocation People.

“Every politician and journalist should read this paper to get ahead of the scandal, which is our energy policy. It is an important contribution to rescuing our civilization from the consequences of unaffordable, intermittent energy.”

Lord Frost hailed the report as “a welcome corrective to a debate long stifled by orthodoxy and wishful thinking,” noting that it “concisely exposes the fundamental flaws of Net Zero,” particularly “the restrictive and authoritarian character of the Climate Change Act, which must be repealed if we are to avoid calamity.”

Graham Stringer MP said: “The evidence is overwhelming that Net Zero is destroying jobs and damaging the economy. An initially well-meaning initiative has turned into an out-of-control Frankenstein’s monster that this paper exposes. We cannot continue with self-harming, disastrous policy.”

GWPF Director, Lord Mackinlay, described Net Zero as “perfectly described by the image of a straitjacket,” adding: “Businesses and their workers who can’t decarbonize fast enough will be simply thrown on the scrap heap; a process that has already started. I hope this report will help unravel some of the misguided thinking that has brought us to this dangerous situation.”

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In The Net Zero Straitjacket, Wilkinson sets out five key arguments:

1. The cost of renewable energy has been underestimated. Published official analyses have not adequately accounted for variable weather patterns, which means there can be entire years of wind drought. This means that the quantity of electricity generation and storage required in 2050 has not been calculated correctly.

2. Electricity prices are likely to rise further, an outcome that the renewable industry appears to be betting on, and which is ‘built in’ by rising renewable energy subsidies and growing grid inefficiency.

3. Compulsory policies put Britain in a straitjacket and can only leave the public poorer. Mandating the use of EVs, heat pumps, and overly strict environmental standards reduces consumer choice and leaves the public worse off. The Climate Change Act ties all future governments to these rigid requirements.

4. We will miss out on using the energy under our feet. The missed opportunities from our pursuit of Net Zero need to be recognized. Failing to extract our significant fossil fuel reserves means large sums of potential tax revenues go uncollected and many people miss out on high-skilled and high-paid jobs. Importing gas and oil means tax revenues, jobs, and investments go abroad.

5. The benefits don’t stack up. The Government uses flawed ‘carbon values’ to claim large benefits for its climate policies. However, these are highly contestable and don’t represent real benefits for the British public from lower emissions.

In his own words, Harry Wilkinson warns: “The public has been misled about the costs and consequences of Net Zero. This report shines a light on the reality: a deeply authoritarian agenda that increases the cost of living for everyone.”

The full report is available to read here: The Net Zero Straitjacket (PDF).

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  1. Rafe Champion says:
    5 months ago

    There is a great deal of analysis of the things that are going wrong with the attempt to run on sun and wind.

    Not enough is being said about the fundamental reason for the disaster and the culprits are not being called to account. I am talking about the meteorologists who didn’t issue wind drought warnings and the architects of the green revolution who didn’t bother to check the reliability of the wind supply to drive the windmills.

    The elephant in the net zero room is the risk of wind droughts/dunkelflautes that the Climate Change Committee deliberately withheld in their advice to the May government. Years ago that scandal was exposed by investigative journalists and the Global Warming Policy Forum, but nothing changed.
    Still not a lot of people don’t know that wind droughts are the fundamental and fatal impediment to the wind and solar fantasy.

    Independent Australian investigators documented the impact of wind droughts on the electricity supply over a decade ago but nobody in officialdom took any notice, at home or abroad.
    https://rafechampion.substack.com/p/the-late-discovery-of-wind-droughts

    Dirt farmers are alert to the threat of rain droughts, how come the wind farmers never checked the reliability of the wind supply to become aware of wind droughts?
    https://open.substack.com/pub/rafechampion/p/we-have-to-talk-about-wind-droughts

    Wind droughts become an existential threat to thousands or tens of thousands of people when the wind drought trap closes on a windless night during extreme weather conditions coinciding with outages of conventional power.https://www.flickerpower.com/index.php/search/categories/general/escaping-the-wind-drought-trap

    The other existential threat as we have seen in Spain and Chile is the lack of grid inertia and that is caused by the subsidies and mandates for unreliable wind and solar that drive conventional power especially coal out of the grid. Millions could have died in Texas in 2021 when the grid was only minutes away from going black completely. Fortunately the failure in the Iberian Peninsula occurred in summertime so nobody was going to freeze to death and it was back online thanks to conventional power from elsewhere before truly cataclysmic horrors emerged, like the failure of the water supply and sewerage.

  2. Spurwing Plover says:
    5 months ago

    So will they end up returning to Whale Oil Lamps and Tallow Candles all because the UN/Globalists demand it all? One more reason to reject the Globalists Mandates

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