ANDREW NEIL: Ed Miliband’s Net Zero mania isn’t just a threat to energy security. It’s making us so reliant on China, he’s now a threat to national security
3 months, 1 week ago

ANDREW NEIL: Ed Miliband’s Net Zero mania isn’t just a threat to energy security. It’s making us so reliant on China, he’s now a threat to national security

Daily Mail  

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband justifies his dogmatic dash to decarbonise our national electricity grid by claiming it will free us from dependence on the fossil fuels of foreign dictators. Miliband, in his 2030 rush to decarbonise, will not be able to resist using China's over-production of panels as a cheap and plentiful supply to fulfil his Net Zero mission. Ed Miliband alongside Sir Keir Starmer during Labour's General Election campaign earlier this year Almost 60 per cent of China's electricity generating capacity comes from coal-fired power stations. According to the prestigious Royal United Services Institute, China already has a 'near monopoly' of the rare minerals supply chains need to meet Net Zero targets. Miliband has concluded that, given China's dominance in EVs, solar panels, rare minerals, batteries and wind turbines, his Net Zero obsession cannot be satisfied without embracing Beijing closely.

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Labour to block bid to ban solar panels made by SLAVES - so Ed Miliband can put them on schools and hospitals
4 days, 20 hours ago

Labour to block bid to ban solar panels made by SLAVES - so Ed Miliband can put them on schools and hospitals

Daily Mail  

Labour will be turning 'a blind eye to slavery' if it blocks a bid to ban ministers from buying solar panels feared to have been made with forced labour, MPs warned last night. But the Government will whip its MPs to vote against the Lords amendment to the Great British Energy Bill in the Commons today, meaning solar panels made …

Ed Miliband admits his solar panels bought for English schools and hospitals are Chinese and may be made using coal
1 week ago

Ed Miliband admits his solar panels bought for English schools and hospitals are Chinese and may be made using coal

Daily Mail  

Solar panels bought for English schools and hospitals will come from China, Ed Miliband has admitted, despite concerns over human rights and impacts on the environment. The first project of the Energy Secretary’s new green quango will see it oversee a £180million project to install rooftop panels on 200 school buildings and almost as many NHS sites. He told broadcasters …

Wait a minute… has Ed Miliband done something right?
1 month ago

Wait a minute… has Ed Miliband done something right?

The Independent  

Whisper it, but has hopeless Ed Miliband actually got something right? In its “The Future is Green” report, the CBI says the “net zero” sector grew by 10 per cent last year, contributing an impressive £83.1bn in gross value added. It’s a serious piece of good news for the beleaguered Labour government – and it’s almost single-handedly down to the …

Revealed: How China has been allowed to takeover Britain's energy industry in the name of Ed Miliband's Net Zero dream - as astonished experts warn of the chilling impact it could have on our national
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Revealed: How China has been allowed to takeover Britain's energy industry in the name of Ed Miliband's Net Zero dream - as astonished experts warn of the chilling impact it could have on our national

Daily Mail  

It was the quiet changing of a lock that sent shockwaves through rural America. A solar farm near Great Wilbraham, Britain A worker producing photovoltaic modules for solar panels in a factory in Suqian, east China's Jiangsu province Turbines in the Moray Offshore Windfarm East, off the Aberdeenshire coast In Washington, lawmakers have slapped tariffs on Chinese tech to safeguard …

Ex-MI6 boss warns Labour's Net Zero push will hand control of energy to China amid claims targets can only be hit with components from Beijing
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Ex-MI6 boss warns Labour's Net Zero push will hand control of energy to China amid claims targets can only be hit with components from Beijing

Daily Mail  

Labour's Net Zero drive will hand China power over the UK's energy supplies because it relies on parts made only by firms controlled by Beijing, a former head of MI^ warns today. Sir Richard Dearlove warned that all Chinese industry was 'answerable to the leadership of the Communist Party' after Rachel Reeves visited the Far East to boost relations and …

Fears Labour's push for Net Zero could endanger Britain's food security as Ed Miliband forces through Britain's biggest solar farm which would cover 2,800 acres of fertile farmland with energy panels
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Fears Labour's push for Net Zero could endanger Britain's food security as Ed Miliband forces through Britain's biggest solar farm which would cover 2,800 acres of fertile farmland with energy panels

Daily Mail  

Fears are growing that Labour's push of Net Zero policies could endanger Britain's food security after Ed Miliband forced through approvals for a the country's biggest solar farm. The energy secretary approved the project for energy firm Sunnica to build a 2,792-acre solar farm and energy storage infrastructure facility in eastern England. The energy secretary approved the project for energy …

Fears for food security as Miliband pushes through Britain’s biggest solar farm
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Fears for food security as Miliband pushes through Britain’s biggest solar farm

The Telegraph  

Ed Miliband has been accused of endangering the nation’s food security after giving the go-ahead for Britain’s biggest solar farm on green land despite the objections of officials. The Energy Secretary’s decision to overturn the planning inspectorate and give the green light to the controversial project in rural eastern England has sparked fury from MPs and campaigners. The scheme will …

America should welcome China's clean energy products, says Bloomberg columnist
9 months, 3 weeks ago

America should welcome China's clean energy products, says Bloomberg columnist

China Daily  

Xinhua | Updated: 2024-06-06 16:48 This aerial photo taken on Feb 18, 2023 shows a photovoltaic power project in Liangzhou district of Wuwei, Northwest China's Gansu province. NEW YORK -- David Fickling, a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, argued on Wednesday that the United States should embrace affordable clean energy products, especially solar panels from China, rather than double tariffs. If Biden's …

Success in solar energy may be a curse for Chinese panel manufacturers
1 year ago

Success in solar energy may be a curse for Chinese panel manufacturers

Live Mint  

Ever since photovoltaic cells started popping up on pocket calculators and building roofs a few decades ago, solar power has faced a key drawback: It’s a nice technology, but there’s simply not enough of it to make a difference. Beijing should introduce bidding rules to prevent low-quality, below-cost products being put onto the market, Zhong Baoshen, chairman of the biggest …

Solar panel prowess of nation should not be viewed as a 'threat'
2 years, 8 months ago

Solar panel prowess of nation should not be viewed as a 'threat'

China Daily  

Aerial photo taken on May 30, 2022 shows China's first solar-tidal photovoltaic power plant in Wugen Township of Wenling, East China's Zhejiang province. According to the report, China's share in all the manufacturing stages of solar panels exceeds 80 percent, more than double its share of global photovoltaic demand. The former US deputy trade representative, Robert Holleyman, who served in …

Solar power in China is now cheaper than the grid in hundreds of cities
5 years, 7 months ago

Solar power in China is now cheaper than the grid in hundreds of cities

CNN  

London CNN Business — Solar energy in hundreds of Chinese cities is now cheaper than electricity supplied by the national grid, and it can even compete with coal-fired power in 75 of them, a new study has found. The researchers said that cheaper prices “may encourage a substantial uptake of industrial and commercial solar systems in China in the near …

China to invest £291bn in renewable energy to combat pollution
8 years, 2 months ago

China to invest £291bn in renewable energy to combat pollution

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy China has announced it will invest 2.5 trillion yuan in renewable energy by 2020 as …

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