UK govt sabotages energy efficiency program to ensure market for nuclear power (93%YOY drop)

[kristopher]

5. That could have been more clear

"Experts" in a situation like this refers to people who specialize in the policies, not politics. That generally included lifetime bureaucrats and outside NGOs. The politicians who insisted on nuclear also insisted on changing the program that was designed to promote energy efficiency improvements in homes. They were warned by bureaucrats and outside groups that the new policy wouldn't work but the nuclear loving conservatives who had promised "no subsidies" for nuclear insisted on it anyway.

As for the increase in coal, why would that surprise you given the conservative government and its dedication to large centralized power plants as an end in and of themselves? They don't give a rats ass about CO2 reductions; their policies sabotaging efficiency and renewables make that perfectly clear.