article_snippet: Generating electricity from windmills has contributed to electricity prices increasing by twice the level of inflation over the last decade, with further huge rises to fund renewable energy to come.
article_snippet: Aluminium production is highly sensitive to energy prices, and most of the UK smelters have closed down – helping us reduce UK emissions, but also exporting jobs.
article_snippet: No one describes the consequence: we now import that aluminium from China, leading to CO2 emissions from shipping it here.
article_snippet: Worse, most electricity in China is produced by coal, not gas, as in the UK.