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The New Daily
Richie Merzian

Ministers addressing our spiralling energy crisis have ignored the greatest opportunities

A sharp rise in electricity prices has been caused almost entirely by our dependence on coal and gas.

There is an energy crisis. Actually, there are two separate but related crises, an electricity price crisis and gas price crisis. While separate they both have the same problem, our reliance on fossil fuels.

The first is a sharp rise in electricity prices, caused almost entirely by our dependence on coal and gas for electricity generation.

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