U.K. Utilities Blame Government Green Policies for Higher Bills
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U.K. utilities said the government’s clean energy policies are behind a surge in consumer electricity bills, remarks aimed at shifting debate away from a proposal to freeze prices until 2017.
Chief executive officers from SSE Plc and RWE Npower Plc, two of the country’s six largest generators, said it’s the cost of wind and solar power along with the government’s ambition to install high-tech meters in every household that have boosted costs for consumers.