Reform UK sets out plan to tax renewable energy
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Richard Tice, the party’s deputy leader, said the UK reform would impose taxes on the renewable energy sector under its plan to abolish the country’s net zero target.
TICE believes that in the UK, zero-zero policy should be attributed to high energy bills and deindustrialization.
Renewables are a “huge scam”, he said, and the promised reforms will be recouped in subsidies from wind and solar companies.
“The British people are deprived of the renewable energy industry,” Tees said in a press conference.
He suggested that the “power generation tax” and the “special corporate tax” would pay the government’s expenses to fund renewable energy.
“The British people need to know that there is a direct link between the cost of all these subsidies and the vested interests of the renewable energy industry,” said the Boston and Skegnis MP.
The party did not share more details on how taxes work in practice, including tax rates at which renewable energy sources are taxed, or how much revenue is increased.
TICE also announced plans to tax solar farms and passed new laws to place energy cables underground instead of towers.
Reform deputy leader said that if the party wins the next election, “we will abolish stupid zeros”.
Currently, the renamed Brexit party has five members of MP after winning 14% of the nation’s vote in last year’s general election.
Cooling on net zero
The party’s energy and net zero stance is in stark contrast to the position of the Labor government, which hopes to eliminate nearly all fossil fuels from UK electricity production by 2030.
Labor is expanding renewable energy and said in its election manifesto that it will invest £8.3 billion in five years, a British energy company with state-owned clean energy companies.
By 2050, governments around the world are investing in renewable energy to achieve international climate goals and reduce carbon emissions to “net zero”.
Renewable energy in the UK is increasingly generating electricity, and the cost of renewable generation has dropped significantly over the past decade.
Labor promised to “up to £300 by 2030”, while energy secretary Ed Miliband supported the promise.
but UK energy bills increase in Januaryexpected to rise again in April.
The main reason for high energy prices in the UK is the rise in natural gas prices, the biggest source of fuel in years.
With UP’s energy costs, President Donald Trump promised more fossil fuel drilling in the United States, so Britain’s reforms focused on renewable energy costs.
Polls unanimously show that most people support net zero policy and focus on the environment.
But Nigel Farage, the reform leader, stood next to his agent and said he thought climate change was real and that it was “insignificant.”
He believes that anything the UK does will be shorter by the scale of carbon emissions in other countries, such as China and India.
Sam Hall, director of the Conservative Environmental Network, said plans to reform the UK “will cause household bills to soar and pull carpets on energy companies”.
“We should release local energy, which can allow us to make us safer and self-reliant without stopping new supplies and removing investor confidence,” he said.
The problem, he added, is “not zero net, it’s our reliance on expensive natural gas imports and excessive government intervention in the energy market”.