Ed Miliband rejects claim southerners would pay more for electricity under zonal pricing plan – UK politics live

Energy secretary says report energy pricing will become a postcode lottery is ‘copper-bottomed nonsense’Miliband says there are huge benefits from countries coperating on energy security.And he says the supporters of clean energy solutions are the “optimists”.Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we saw family finances, business finances, public finances wrecked as fossil fuel prices rocketed on the global market …As with many other countries, we’re a price taker, not a price maker in international fossil fuel markets.[Since then] the challenges we face have changed, but I think the principle underpinning the IEA’s work, that countries need to collaborate to secure the uninterrupted supply of energy at an affordable price, remains the same. Continue reading...

Apr 24, 2025 - 09:40
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Ed Miliband rejects claim southerners would pay more for electricity under zonal pricing plan – UK politics live

Energy secretary says report energy pricing will become a postcode lottery is ‘copper-bottomed nonsense’

Miliband says there are huge benefits from countries coperating on energy security.

And he says the supporters of clean energy solutions are the “optimists”.

Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we saw family finances, business finances, public finances wrecked as fossil fuel prices rocketed on the global market …

As with many other countries, we’re a price taker, not a price maker in international fossil fuel markets.

[Since then] the challenges we face have changed, but I think the principle underpinning the IEA’s work, that countries need to collaborate to secure the uninterrupted supply of energy at an affordable price, remains the same. Continue reading...