{"id":264116,"date":"2023-06-27T12:53:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T10:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=264116"},"modified":"2023-06-27T12:53:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T10:53:53","slug":"rishi-sunak-to-hit-households-with-170-net-zero-levy-within-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=264116","title":{"rendered":"Rishi Sunak to Hit Households With \u00a3170 Net Zero Levy Within Days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0WILL JONES<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Households will pay a \u00a3170-a-year Net Zero levy on energy bills in the coming days, with Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt accused of \u201cslyly\u201d shifting costs back to consumers. The Telegraph <\/em>has the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Telegraph <\/em>has learned that the two-year suspension of green levies announced last autumn is to end from the beginning of July, after just nine months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cost of the levies was shifted from consumer bills to be funded instead by the Government, following a year-long campaign by energy firms and MPs amid spiralling gas, electricity and food prices last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It will again be imposed on consumers, although there has been no formal announcement. Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, who was Business and Energy Secretary when the costs were taken away from consumers last year, said: \u201cGreen levies are part of the problem behind the U.K.\u2019s particularly high electricity prices. They ought to be abolished but should fall on general taxation until that can happen. The ambition for Net Zero must not make us cold and poor. Any new or re-imposed charge ought to be announced to Parliament first and not slipped through slyly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision to fund the green levies via general taxation, as opposed to consumer bill payments, was announced by Kwasi Kwarteng, the then Chancellor, when he unveiled the energy bailout used by the Government to subsidise consumer bills since its creation in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time, the Government said: \u201cSchemes previously funded by green levies will also continue to be funded by the Government during this two-year period to ensure the U.K.\u2019s investment in home-grown, secure renewable technologies continues.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the Treasury will stop funding the cost \u2013 which has risen from \u00a3150 last year to \u00a3170 now \u2013 from July, meaning that it will be borne by consumers once again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Treasury source insisted that the move was \u201cnot an active decision of this administration\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Due to the way the Energy Price Guarantee (EPG), the Government bailout, was designed, it covered the green levies on bills<\/a>, the source said. From July, when EPG subsidies will end for most bill-payers, so will Treasury funding of the green levies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The disclosure prompted astonishment among senior Tories \u2013 particularly after Grant Shapps, the Net Zero Secretary, told the Telegraph <\/em>on Saturday: \u201cWe know we need to fund this transition, but we don\u2019t want to do it through household levies\u2026 I don\u2019t want to see people\u2019s household bills unnecessarily bashed by this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Shapps said he wanted to scrap plans for a new \u00a3120-a-year levy<\/a> to fund the hydrogen industry. However, days after his remarks, consumers will once again be saddled with the \u00a3170-a-year cost of levies that fund other \u2018green\u2019 schemes, ranging from the installation of home insulation, to historical contracts with wind farm developers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tory parliamentarians and Government figures consulted by the Telegraph <\/em>said they had expected the charges to be borne by the Treasury for at least the two-year period announced in September. Critics of the levies had expected a public debate about whether the charges should then be reimposed on consumers, either in part or in full, or scrapped altogether.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Worth reading in full<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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