The cost of subsidising new wind farms is spiralling out of control, government sources have privately warned.
Officials admitted that so-called “green” energy schemes will require a
staggering £9 billion a year in subsidies - paid for by customers - by
2020. This is £1.5 billion more than the maximum limit the coalition had
originally planned.
The mounting costs will mean every household in the country is forced to pay an estimated £170 a year by the end of the decade to support the renewable electricity schemes that were promoted by the coalition.
Tory ministers are said to be "angry" at the scale of the over-running
costs. They are blaming the Liberal Democrats who ran the Department for
Energy and Climate Change for the past five years for the spectacular
failure to control renewable energy programmes."
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