{"id":48772,"date":"2014-10-15T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=d5755c62bd727d0e2c79a1ccfdc75b59"},"modified":"2014-10-15T13:05:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T13:05:00","slug":"government-response-response-to-the-express-article-15-october-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=48772","title":{"rendered":"Government response: Response to the Express article 15 October 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/uk\/522800\/Wind-farms-blamed-for-winter-power-cut-and-rise-energy-bills\">The Express article on 15 October (Electric bills to soar by \u00a31000)<\/a> is totally wrong to suggest there is a risk of power cuts and bill increases as a result of the Government investing in wind power.<\/p>\n<p>We have prevented a predicted energy crunch by investing in an energy mix that includes renewable sources like wind and solar to work alongside other technologies.  We certainly aren\u2019t ignoring nuclear or gas \u2013 in the last two weeks we moved forwards in the construction of a new nuclear plant that will provide clean power for six million homes and announced that there had been huge interest in the first \u2018capacity auction\u2019 designed to encourage gas generation.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no surprise that the US Chamber of Commerce ranks the UK as the most energy secure county in the EU.<\/p>\n<p>My policies are keeping the lights on, cutting energy use and reducing polluting emissions, at the lowest possible cost for households and businesses. <\/p>\n<p>Ed Davey,<br \/>\nEnergy and Climate Change Secretary<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A response to the Express article published on 15 October, &quot;Electric bills to soar by \u00a31000&quot;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48818,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48772\/revisions\/48818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}