that sort of thinking is not supported by the generators. They are the “experts” that advise and lobby the government.

So, while I applaud your analysis, it is hard to see it happening at the pace it should like the 30 years to support Green Wave traffic lights or 60 years of hydrogen car push
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Eg, give pensioners home batteries and free overnight electricity and remove their fuel poverty/anxiety but then remove their fuel allowance.

Comfort up
Anxiety down
Tax take reduced but Gov spending down
Reduced day time ⚡️demand
⚡️ network balanced
Reduced need to build more⚡️ generation

But…

services that actually generates jobs.

History shows how short sighted the gov can be. The treasury initially vetoed the introduction of Green Wave traffic lights because the fuel efficiency gains would reduce the tax take.

The gov needs to factor in the benefits into the reduced tax take…

It can be taxed at the point of delivery.

What the government doesn’t see is the benefit that having cheaper transport provides. We save money on transport costs and heating our home and spend it on other things. Heating using fossil fuel is like burning £5 notes rather than spending it on local..

Because you cannot tax differently the electricity used for cooking and charging your car. For years, governments tinkered with overhead gantries and systems to record miles driven. All because they knew that electric cars were coming. But hydrogen has to be delivered from a filling station…

the UK gov wants to be a nuclear power.

So while individuals may install their own batteries and solar (as we have), expect the day when a tax will be introduced based on usage even if self generated. The 3p a mile on electric cars is an indicator.

Why was the hydrogen car promoted for so long?..

2) high electricity prices generate higher tax revenues (even though VAT rates on electricity are relatively low)
3) CfDs for renewables result in excess profits being returned to the Treasury.
4) High electricity prices justifies “new nuclear” = nuclear knowledge and…

The pricing of electricity is one that is littered with complex government needs:
1) we know that the strike price of “new nuclear” will make gas generated electricity seem cheap. So maintaining a high electricity price, softens up the consumer for when this cost hosts the market…

I would add an additional barrier to achieving your analysis (in the UK): Government shortsightedness, eg; The announced introduction of a 3p per mile for electric vehicles. The pricing of electricity by the wholesale price of the last successful bidder. Policy designed to support voter demographics

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Half a billion would. £500k is a rounding error.

If a border poll happens for NI/ROI and it results in unification, then the Union will collapse. The English dominated WM could no longer “justify” Scotland being held captive.

John Swinney visiting Irish President, Catherine Connolly, and the Taoiseach, Micheál Martin was a very good move.

Unfortunately, that’s the nearest shop. Some times you run out of things. It’s also an electric car and we have solar, so doing our bit rather than a fossil fuel car.

Of course 15 minute towns would be great, but someone will only complain about that.

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