We are paying a heavy price for our elites’ green fantasies

We are paying a heavy price for our elites’ green fantasies

• Decades of failed energy policies came home to roost this year.

"Most Britons probably didn’t realise at the time just how close we came to blackouts this year. 

Parts of London were just inches away from running out of power back in the summer. 

The National Grid, out of sheer desperation, was forced to fork out an astonishing £9,700 per megawatt hour to secure emergency supplies from abroad – over 5,000 per cent the usual price. 

That close shave with a blackout was the energy crisis in a microcosm...