Cutting green levies on energy bills is false economy, say analysts

UK needs to reduce gas addiction and ramp up clean energy investment to bring energy bills down permanently

Cutting green levies on energy bills, or watering down the UK's commitment to net-zero carbon emissions, would fail to help households with high energy prices and store up problems for the near future, analysts have warned.

Ed Matthew, campaigns director at the E3G thinktank, said: Cutting green levies to tackle the energy bills crisis would be utterly self-defeating. It would only keep the UK addicted to gas for longer. The only cure is to ramp up clean energy investment and eliminate energy waste. That is the permanent solution to bring down energy bills. Any politician working against that is directly undermining the interests of their constituents and likely to be in the pocket of the fossil fuel lobby."