Electricity customers pay more than £1bn a year to subsidise renewable energy to meet EU targets

[Henk Elegeert]

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Electricity customers pay more than £1bn a year to subsidise renewable
energy to meet EU targets

The Sunday Telegraph reported that next month's annual report from
Ofgem is expected to say that electricity customers are paying more
than £1 billion a year to subsidise windfarms and other forms of
renewable energy, as part of a Government scheme to force energy
companies to fund green energy.

The companies bear the cost but pass it on to consumers in the form of
higher bills. An additional burden fell on industrial users of
electricity, who in turn passed on costs to their customers.

 The levy on companies, known as the Renewables Obligation (RO), is
divided between the main renewable energy sources, with wind receiving
40 percent, landfill gas 25 percent, biomass 20 percent, hydroelectric
12 percent and sewage gas 3 percent. The cost to consumers of the RO
scheme has risen from £278 million in 2002/3 to £1.04 billion last
year, the Ofgem report is expected to say. The total cost of the
scheme has reached £4.4 billion over the past seven years. There are
currently 270 wind farms with 2,775 turbines in operation, with plans
for a further 10,000 on and around Britain's shores

The EU has set targets for 20% of its energy to come from renewables
by 2020, requiring the UK to source up to 40% of its electricity from
renewable power, mostly wind.
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Sunday Telegraph EurActiv Open Europe research
(http://openeurope.org.uk/research/carep.pdf)

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