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12/06/2026

Stop building wind farms, EDF boss urges Miliband

Chief executive calls on Government to approve rollout of EVs and heat pumps to absorb surplus power

Britain should stop building wind farms because the country has too much electricity, the UK boss of EDF Energy has said.

Simone Rossi, the energy giant’s chief executive, said Ed Miliband’s expansion of wind and solar power was creating far more electricity generation capacity than needed.

Mr Rossi told The Telegraph: “We should stop building wind farms and focus instead on raising demand for electricity ... As a country we don’t need more electricity generation capacity. We need to use the generation capacity we have already got.

“As a country, we’ve always got it wrong. We’ve always thought electricity demand was going to increase, but it decreased ... So now we have this large [generating] infrastructure, twice as much as we need, which means we also need to build twice the [transmission] grid.”

He added: “These are all fixed costs – so the key question is how are we going to absorb those fixed costs? My conclusion is that the time has come to shift the debate from building more [infrastructure] and just stop it for the foreseeable future. That’s enough. The issue now is how we use it.”

Chief executive calls on Government to approve rollout of EVs and heat pumps to absorb surplus power

12/06/2026

NZW Director Andrew Montford exposes Miliband’s cynicism in his latest column on our website.

“Playing about with subsidies was actually a diversion, intended to distract attention from a sharp underlying increase in the costs that Net Zero imposes on bills.”



Read the column below👇
https://www.netzerowatch.com/all-news/the-cynicism-of-the-secretary-of-state

Our Director Andrew Montford exposes Miliband’s cynicism in his latest column on our website.

“Playing about with subsidies was actually a diversion, intended to distract attention from a sharp underlying increase in the costs that Net Zero imposes on bills.”

Read the column below👇
https://www.netzerowatch.com/all-news/the-cynicism-of-the-secretary-of-state

12/06/2026

In announcing the decision to set a 87% target cut in emissions, the DESNZ press release prominently featured the claim that “the net zero economy supports over one million jobs in the UK”.

The claim is a lie. More than that, it is also blackmail.

With the public beginning to wake up to the fact Net Zero is pushing their energy bills up, not down as promised, forcing them to buy cars they don’t want, scrap their gas boilers and causing untold job losses, Miliband is now resorting to the threat that ditching Net Zero will result in a million losing their jobs.

The claim comes from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, ECIU, which was set up twelve years ago by the former BBC environment correspondent Richard Black. It is nothing more than a Net Zero lobby group, which regularly disseminates disinformation and parrots Net Zero propaganda. Unsurprisingly, given Richard Black’s role, the ECIU is indistinguishable from the BBC where climate coverage is concerned and just as unreliable.



https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2026/06/08/milibands-green-jobs-mirage/?fbclid=IwdGRleASYhuJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEe2Dw0ywUcMd-XjgTO0ejPXabtmIqX652J6QhBFl6XONOzB8fKXHGJv3-iz7I_aem_ixG6bnPNdm5_PxW7SdW4-g

By Paul Homewood In announcing the decision to set a 87% target cut in emissions, the DESNZ press release prominently featured the claim that “the net zero economy supports over one m…

12/06/2026

Transmission networks move electricity over long distances from power generation sites to substations, where it is distributed to consumers through distribution networks. The National Energy System Operator (NESO) is responsible for the day-to-day operation of the electricity system in Great Britain. Ofgem regulates the transmission network operators that own and manage the networks in Great Britain. The Department for Energy Security & Net Zero (DESNZ) is working with Ofgem and NESO to upgrade the electricity transmission network to handle a higher capacity of renewable energy and to improve resilience, as part of its plan to deliver a clean electricity system by 2030.

To connect new generation and meet future demand from sectors like heating, transport and industry, DESNZ estimates that around twice as much new transmission network infrastructure will be needed in Great Britain by 2030 as has been delivered in the past decade. The current network experiences constraints when the electricity system is unable to transmit power to electricity users because the network has reached maximum capacity.

NESO has identified over 80 transmission projects it considers are needed to achieve clean power by 2030. These include upgrades to existing infrastructure and new transmission lines. DESNZ is working with Ofgem to explore the incentives and penalties to increase the delivery of network infrastructure.



https://www.nao.org.uk/work-in-progress/upgrading-the-electricity-transmission-network/?fbclid=IwdGRleASYhBdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEep37MuH6wNrTAmHAqhGdM-ol3EnyOUqQG-ZYhlsdHRhUA3ch8ZLlEBtklv7o_aem_gGfAGiF2O-qP9_NCVBA5bw

This NAO report will review if DESNZ, Ofgem and NESO have presented a robust value for money case for upgrading the transmission network.

11/06/2026

This seems more than a little hypocritical given the location for so many proposed wind farms in Wales that so far Plaid have not intervened to prevent despite all the expert advise from LQAS.

Our reply:

So best not build wind farms on them then! If nothing else the wake effect is proven to dehydrate peat but we also know wind farm peat restoration has failed miserably on Viking Shetland and closer to home on pen y Cwmoedd.

"From our internationally important bogs to the restoration work now underway across Wales, peatlands show why nature-based solutions matter.

"They cover just 4 per cent of our land yet store around 30 per cent of our land-based carbon and are among our most important natural assets for biodiversity, climate action, flood and fire risk mitigation."
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11/06/2026

We have had a few people ask what we actually do behind the scenes so here is an example. Planning representation made to PEDW regarding the Mynydd Lluest y Gwynt wind farm application.

You will find our latest on Infrasound and blade debris toxicity in the two reports and appendices.

We have sent this to both relevant Welsh Ministers and their shadows demanding a moratorium on consent and construction pending truly independent review.