Il governo annuncia sconti sull’energia elettrica di 420 milioni di sterline per l’industria pesante, una mossa accolta favorevolmente dai padroni dell’acciaio e dell’industria manifatturiera
https://www.business-live.co.uk/manufacturing/government-announces-420m-electricity-discounts-32785644
di Electricbell20
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Just unchain nuclear power sector and let them handle that. Nuclear energy as a base plus renewables and we are unstoppable.
Nuclear plants allow you forge steel cheap. We use lots of steel.
It’s not stated outright but I’m assuming the gov is subsidising their energy costs, not forcing the electricity companies to charge less.
We really do need sensible regional pricing for energy, we’re currently all paying premium even when all electricity used is from renewables that cost only setup and maintenance, far less than it costs to generate electricity via gas or nuclear power.
It’s a nice sentiment but all it does is pay a company’s energy bills with taxpayer money when we should be revamping our energy infrastructure so that we aren’t paying some of the highest energy prices in the world.
I’m conflicted on this.
I do think that energy prices are crippling UK industry. We can’t compete on cost of *anything* as energy costs so much.
That said, small businesses, schools, hospitals etc are being hit far harder. Why on earth are schools and hospitals on the uncapped business rates? Where’s the support for small businesses that are going bust all the time as they can’t afford the energy costs? Just one annecdotal example, we had a wonderful small bakery here that was always popular, who had to close up shop when energy bills got too high. It’s stuff like that we’ll keep losing while they bail out big industry
Finally, most of Europe has been doing this for decades. The problem with the UK is we’re so ideologically afraid of state aid, while all our competitors have been using it to gain advantage over us.
When everything is so utterly fucked that the only solution is to literally throw (my) money at the problem.
What about subsidised gas prices now for large industry?
More corporate welfare isn’t the answer.
Making structural changes to bring down the cost of electricity is.