ONSHORE wind energy in the UK is . This, combined with plans to give local communities more power to reject wind farms could stop the country’s cheapest big form of clean energy in its tracks.
It’s unclear how the government squares this with its commitment to “deliver clean energy as cheaply as possible”, renewable energy targets, carbon budgets and the need to tackle climate change.
At the heart of this issue is the fantasy of a free, level and unsubsidised electricity market. In UK and European markets, fossil-fuel generators set the price of…
