The UK shut down its last coal-fired power station a few weeks ago, but there was a lot less fanfare than usual

The United Kingdom closed its last coal-fired power plant a few weeks ago, but there was much less fanfare than usual, particularly from green activists who usually drink champagne every time a coal worker loses his job.

Perhaps their muted reaction was due to some data released by the United Kingdom The government closed the coal-fired power plant that same week.

These data showed that the United Kingdom now has the highest electricity prices in the developed world.

The penny is starting to drop on how much the renewable energy experiment is costing us all, unless it was just a few pennies it cost us.

Any country that has installed a significant amount of solar or wind energy has ended up with significantly higher electricity prices.

The United Kingdom Government data shows that there is a statistically significant relationship between a larger share of electricity from solar and wind energy in a country and higher electricity prices.

This would be a shock if you only received your energy news from the Australian government or its agencies.

These groups produce a constant stream of renewable energy propaganda. For example this CSIRO constantly tell us that solar and wind energy are the “cheapest” form of energy.

The problem is that solar and wind energy are only cheap if they work.

If they don’t work (often there is no wind and it’s night every day) it becomes very expensive.

We still need electricity at night, and that means any system that relies heavily on solar and wind energy needs a costly backup system ready to use when the weather changes.

In addition, many solar and wind turbines are far from existing power grids.

The cost of expanding transmission lines to these areas is another huge cost that will be passed on to your electricity bills.

In recent years the CSIRO attempted to address this problem by estimating the cost of “solidifying” a renewable energy system.

But their calculations are opaque and conveniently claim that the fixed cost of renewable energy is still (just) cheaper than coal, gas or nuclear.

The CSIRO does not take into account the cost of additional renewable energy transmission lines.

However, other estimates show why renewable energy is so expensive.

An article in the trade magazine *Energy* by Robert Idel in 2022 the Levelized Full System Costs of Electricity will be calculated, i.e. the costs of providing a specific form of electricity for the entire market.

Idel also calculates an estimate of whether the power source would cover 95 percent of the market.

These estimates show that solar and wind energy are more than twice as expensive as coal.

Given that the Albanian government wants to cover 82 percent of our electricity needs through solar and wind energy, these figures are probably more realistic than those of CSIRO. They would also explain why the more solar and wind energy we install, the higher our electricity prices become.

All of this costs households a lot of money every time an electricity bill shows up in the mail.

But it also poses a major risk to our manufacturing industries such as the Rockhampton magnesium plant and the Gladstone alumina and aluminum works.

Another event occurred in United Kingdom the week the last coal-fired power plant closed.

The last steelworks in the United Kingdom also closed.

Higher electricity prices have forced the end of Britain’s steel industry, once the largest in the world in the late 19th century.

This should also be a warning to us.

We have already lost most of our fertilizer, plastics and nickel industries due to higher electricity prices.

If we go the British way and close all our coal-fired power stations, we could also lose many more manufacturing jobs.