Hidden green tax in fuel bills: How £200 stealth charge is slipped on to your gas and electricity bill

Daily Mail

"Hidden green taxes now make up a fifth of every household’s gas and electricity bills, energy campaigners warned last night.Cash strapped families pay an average of £200 a year in stealth levies to subsidise Britain's massive expansion of wind farms, solar panels and 'environmentally friendly' heating schemes.Yesterday outraged campaigners called for an end to the secret subsidies and demanded power companies reveal how much their customers are paying for climate change policies . ......The typical UK household spends £608 a year on gas and another £424 on electricity. Dr Peiser says green stealth taxes make up between £154 and £206 of that bill. For couples with large families - and large fuel demands - the figure is far higher.

‘And yet, despite the growing cost of these taxes, you won’t find any mention of them at all on your gas and electricity bills,’ he said.‘That, of course, suits the Government down to the ground. If it raised the huge sums required to encourage renewable energy and limit carbon emission through general taxation it would make the Government itself very unpopular.‘But by doing it through electricity and gas bills, the Government has cleverly ensure that it’s the power companies that take the blame.’