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Net Zero Leaves Britain Paying France
to Take Our Power

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Posted By: Mercedes44, 6/20/2026 6:13:53 AM

The cackhanded pursuit of Net Zero by Ed Miliband and his predecessors has left Britain having to pay France and other countries to take excess power off our hands for a significant portion of the year. The Telegraph has more. It’s the Ed Miliband paradox: why does Britain have among the highest power prices in Europe when we have so much electricity that suppliers have to pay customers to use it? It was a question repeated across the energy industry last week after power prices briefly turned negative, meaning customers and countries abroad were paid to use surplus electricity generated in Britain rather than having to pay for it.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Venturer 6/20/2026 8:16:24 AM (No. 2118691)
This sure sounds crazy, but who knows what Britain is doing these days?
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