Jillian Ambrose’s Latest Howler

By Paul Homewood

There were two incredibly poor articles in the Telegraph yesterday, even by their recent low standards.

The first was by the renewables shill, Jillian Ambrose. I’ll run the other later.

Britain’s landlords could cost the energy system hundreds of millions of pounds by using loopholes in the Government’s housing standards to avoid improving energy efficiency.

Landlords are expected to file for exemptions from the forthcoming efficiency guidelines to avoid shouldering the expense of upgrading the country’s most poorly insulated homes, at a major cumulative cost to energy consumers who will pay for new power capacity through their bills.

By upgrading 300,000 homes at the lowest end of the energy efficiency scale, tenants could save £600 off each energy bill. This is the equivalent of £180m in savings on energy bills overall, and the cost of building a new gas-fired power plant or two large offshore wind farms.

Joanne Wade, from the Association for the Conservation of Energy, said “the bigger prize” would be a move to include all homes under a C band of energy efficiency.

“The total annual energy savings would be the equivalent to turning the Drax coal plant off for eight months, or avoiding construction of 4GW of new capacity,” she told The Sunday Telegraph.

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£600!!

What planet is she on?

Ambrose appears to have just reprinted what Joanne Wade has told her.

For a start, most households actually use gas for heating, so any savings there will have no effect on electricity.

My gas bill comes to about £500 pa, and includes water heating and cooking. Improving insulation might save £50 a year, but certainly not £600. (Question – does Ms Ambrose live in a mansion?)

Spread over 300,000 homes, this saving would amount to only £15 million a year, a mere rounding error in an electricity market worth near to £40bn annually.

And where does she get 4GW of new capacity from? This would add about 10% to the UK’s current generation. And all just for 300,000 houses?

The Association for the Conservation of Energy seems to be a rather small and extremely amateurish lobby group. They are entitled to their opinions.

But Jillian Ambrose now spends most of her time acting as a mouthpiece for green lobbyists, like Emma Pinchbeck from Renewable UK.

If she is going to publish information that is so obviously fake on their behalf, how much longer will the Telegraph allow her to trash its reputation?