Chair of the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) Lord Deben has said that household energy bills will suffer if the UK continues to deter new onshore windfarms. In an article published by The Guardian on Sunday 10 June, Deben said he hoped the government would rethink its opposition to subsidies to it, which it ended in 2015. Deben told the newspaper: “Onshore wind is the cheapest form of electricity. If the Scots want to have it, on which basis should we say they shouldn’t have it?”, adding: “If you don’t build onshore wind, the government has to say how much of an extra cost this is to the public.”
