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    Hohe Energiepreise gefährden den Status Großbritanniens als Produktionsmacht, sagen Unternehmensgruppen


    Hohe Energiepreise gefährden den Status Großbritanniens als Produktionsmacht, sagen Unternehmensgruppen

    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/feb/22/high-energy-prices-threaten-uks-status-as-manufacturing-power-business-groups-say

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    3. niteninja1 on

      Require councils to approve X amount of planning permission for power generation and new homes each year.

      If they don’t they lose the right to block and planning applications in the next year

    4. BMW_wulfi on

      Can we just renationalise energy? Please? We could pay far less and still end up with a windfall that could be invested in energy to sell abroad and have our own sovereign wealth fund like some of the nordics.

    5. Outside-Locksmith346 on

      Just left Iceland. The wonders of cheap energy are everywhere.

      The UK is starved of energy. High prices are an economic poison.

    6. PassingShot11 on

      High prices because of foreign owned suppliers who subsidise their own domestic markets with our high prices because of greedy politicians who have let this happen.

    7. Honest-Concert7646 on

      China was selected years ago as the global manufacturing centre with their massive build out of clean (free) energy, monopoly on global shipping and robotics. With the main rationale to reduce manufacturing emissions in a world where all manufacturing is done in China.

      Years later all manufactures in China have a competitive advantage due to all of the above, but particularly the cheap energy. other countries can’t compete, particularly the UK where it’s all about subsidizing solar panels through high energy prices.

      So now we have tariffs and it’s all apparently because of a misguided global policy years ago to centralise manufacturing in China.

      You couldn’t make this up.

    8. Contact_Patch on

      It is a political choice to:

      A. Privatise power generation and distribution.

      B. Not build a nuclear grid baseline.

      C. Allow the private companies from A to dictate substation upgrades.

      D. Not insisting all new build houses have solar and batteries.

    9. callsignhotdog on

      Energy prices underpin everything. Everything you buy costs more because everyone in the supply and distribution chain is having to cover their energy bills. The private energy industry is a parasite latched onto the entire economy, leaching all the growth from it. Labour keeps insisting it’s priority is growth but they won’t consider the thing which would generate the most growth which is nationalising the entire thing (extraction, generation and distribution). Imagine the growth potential if every business suddenly had its energy bills halved. Imagine the polling numbers if Labour overnight slashed every households energy bill by half.

    11. vividpup5535 on

      Every week I see a new story about new renewables. It’ll take time, but we will see them fall under Labour. GBE is already underway.

      Infact, prices are actually already going to be down in 2026, weeks just need to see more.

    14. Significant_Recipe64 on

      just redo the formula that the energy price cap is calculated on

      regulate harder how much suppliers can charge providers for energy, and what each type can be charged as

      approve more of the types of domestic energy we have that provide cheap power. e.g. wind. we’re one of the windiest countries in the world, as well as a world leading expert in wind power. build more wind

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