Our energy policies have run out of puff

The data is clear, stark, and damning. Priced in kilowatt hours per cent(¢), if the UK were a US state, it would be the most expensive state in which to buy electricity. This means it is more expensive than Hawaii, which relies entirely on geothermal energy. 

That is not an achievement — no longer can we say “thank God for Mississippi” for our rankings. It is, instead, a catastrophe of energy policy driven by an obsessive and costly adherence to unreliable and expensive energy sources.