Category: The fight against the destruction of our farms and greenbelt

The same Alverdiscott grid point once intended to receive 3.6GW from Morocco is now being promoted for a 1.5GW AI campus and 1.8GW battery. Yet the public still has no complete power, grid, water or lifetime-cost account.

In 2019 Britain changed its legally binding 2050 emissions target from an 80% reduction to Net Zero. The Government recorded that no Impact Assessment had been prepared for the instrument. Seven years later, industry, energy, infrastructure and public finance provide evidence for a national reassessment.

Eighty-seven large solar sites were already operating by Cornwall Council’s last published count. Three rejected schemes have since been approved on appeal. Yet there is still no complete public account of the cost, grid infrastructure or cumulative transformation.

The Seventh Carbon Budget is law. The physical changes assumed beneath it have scarcely been debated. By Shane Oxer | Hope to Save Our Countryside The Lake District National Park covers 236,200 hectares. The Climate Change Committee’s pathway reaches 700,000 hectares of energy crops across the UK by 2050 — an area almost three times…

Four industrial capture plants. Around 200 kilometres of new pipeline across England. Approximately 90 kilometres beneath the Irish Sea. Public money is already invested—but the Government says it does not hold the complete projected cost.

From storm-damaged solar panels on Anglesey to new grid corridors, battery compounds, wind farms, ports and offshore arrays, Wales is being reshaped project by project. The public is still not being shown one complete bill.

Scout Moor II, Calderdale Energy Park and Hope Moor would place 69 turbines across three upland landscapes. Their combined headline capacity is about 474MW; the developers’ own forecasts imply an average of about 162MW, while the complete grid and peat account remains unfinished.

Across the Highlands and Islands, billions of pounds of transmission, subsea cables, substations, batteries and enabling works are being committed. The infrastructure is increasingly one connected system. The complete public cost account still is not.

Kent, Suffolk and Essex expose the fragmented accounting behind Britain’s energy build-out By Shane Oxer — Campaigner for fairer and affordable energy Across Kent, Suffolk and Essex, one of the largest concentrations of new electricity infrastructure in Britain is taking shape. Offshore wind farms measured in gigawatts. Vast solar developments. Battery-storage compounds. New substations. Converter…

Hundreds of Billions Committed, Grid Projects Years Behind Need, and Britain Still Without a Complete Whole-System Cost By Shane Oxer — Campaigner for fairer and affordable energy Britain is attempting to rebuild its electricity system on a scale rarely explained to the public. Around £180 billion of generation investment is envisaged between 2025 and 2030.…