Energy bill pain here to stay as govt fails on insulation

Commenting on remarks by Centrica’s boss Chris O’Shea about the worst of the energy bill crisis being over, Greenpeace UK’s climate and energy campaigner Georgia Whitaker said:

“Bills have come down from the vertiginous heights of last winter, but they’re still double what they were three years ago and the pain is here to stay. The real solution is to stop using volatile fossil fuels to heat our homes, but Rishi Sunak’s government has spectacularly failed on that front. Last winter should have been a wake-up call for the prime minister to deliver the nationwide insulation programme and mass switch to cheap, renewable-powered heat pumps that we desperately need. This is a common-sense way to lower bills for good, cut planet-heating emissions and boost our energy security. Instead, Sunak persists in blocking renewables and botching schemes to get our homes off gas, while looking for more of the fossil fuels that have caused the problem in the first place. Unless this government gets a move on, history will repeat itself later this year and millions will be facing another long, cold winter with bills they cannot afford to pay.”