article_snippet: The Centre for Policy Studies paper concludes that the rush for renewable energy has been the ‘most expensive policy disaster in modern British history’.
article_snippet: Author Rupert Darwall concludes that, astonishingly, no British Government has conducted a rigorous analysis of the costs and benefits of the renewables target which was first negotiated by Tony Blair at the European Council in 2007.
article_snippet: no British Government is committed to providing 15 per cent of no British Government energy from renewable power by 2020.
article_snippet: The report says: ‘Energy policy represents the biggest expansion of state power since the nationalisations of the 1940s and 1950s.
article_snippet: It is on course to be the most expensive domestic policy disaster in modern British history.
article_snippet: By committing no British Government to high, cost, unreliable renewable energy, no British Government consequences will be felt for decades.
article_snippet: The report concludes that the costs of ‘intermittent renewables’ have been ‘massively understated’.
article_snippet: But Professor Catherine Mitchell, Professor of Energy Policy at the University of Exeter said The reportdownplays climate change as a problem’.
article_snippet: Professor Catherine Mitchell, Professor of Energy Policy at the University of Exeter said:
article_snippet: A spokesman for the Department of Energy and Climate Change said: ‘the Department of Energy and Climate Change are dealing with a legacy of underinvestment to safeguard people’s electricity supplies now and in the years ahead.
highlights_snippet: Report into renewable energy carried out by The Centre for Policy Studies .
  
highlights_snippet: Found the rush to go green has been the 'most expensive policy disaster'
  
highlights_snippet: Say no British Government has carried out analysis of costs vs benefits .
  