Archive: Renewables Obligation: a conspiracy to steal by British Government criminals
First published at Luikkerland, February 2012
In recent days there has been a lot of virtual and actual newsprint and column space generated regarding the 101 Tory MPs who wrote a letter to David Cameron to demand a cut in the “subsidies” paid to energy suppliers for inefficient onshore wind farms. Naturally, the letter found its way to the Sunday Telegraph and in doing so revealed the whole spectacle for what it is: a public relations exercise to convince the multitude of insanely gullible that the Tory Party yet contains a contingent that can spot an injustice and a wrong policy, and as such also appear to be able and willing to put it right. The hoped for effect of a crusading “conservative” contingent is the public impression that the collective party is worth voting for – which is very far from being the truth. This deception, and how to carry it out, is exactly the sort of witchcraft-to-replace-representative-democracy that the Arch Progressive Plotters, Hannan and Carswell, spelt out in their book, The Plan (for lots of so-called opinion leaders/formers and current affairs commentators to completely overlook all these many years that the title has been published).
In the next 24-hours there will be a story… [in these pages] which will note that the Tory MPs seem to make no mention of offshore wind farms – especially those set to generate millions in revenue for Her Very Lowness (“with her head in a sling… sounds like a wonderful thing”), the Queen, in lieu of the relatively measly Civil List that the tax payer theoretically had control over. Also at some point I want to look at how some of these Tory heroes behaved in the progress of certain climate change legislation through the Houses of Parliament. In the meantime, I want to deal with the general subject matter of how renewable energy has been a means, within the greater scope of a war declared by the British Government to impoverish the people it governs, to introduce an administrative smokescreen which will hide, what are effectively, governmental raids on the common wealth of the British; a means by which the criminals in the ruling class will strip us of our individual wealth while simultaneously conditioning us to accept Medieval-like expectations regarding access to electricity. It’s all part of a grand plan to make us into serfs on the land just as we were in pre-bubonic plague days; an era that our globalist ruling elite hanker after. As it turns out, my previous post [link to follow] at this site about high-level criminality dressed up in regalia, pomp and circumstance, and tradition so as to give it a false respectability was a timely one and somewhat acts as a preface to this article – which is an examination of one specific criminal endeavour that our crooked ruling elite are involved in.
Some readers will already know that electricity suppliers – the companies you buy your electricity from – are obliged to produce a certain percentage of that supply from renewable sources, such as wave, solar and wind power. The root of the obligation lies in the rotten core of the EU (where lots of our problems stem from) – which, incidentally, makes it unlawful in the first instance as sovereign British citizens have never given consent for their country to reside in a political union between European Countries.
Because British MPs are just highly-paid (off) members of a rubber stamping committee for unlawful EU legislation, and therefore a gateway for its wrongful subjection upon our citizens’ Commonwealth in Britain, they are collectively, besides being guilty of treason, complicit in a crime that manifests in this requirement for electricity suppliers to meet EU targets for renewable energy production. Indeed, British MPs are actually specifically implicated because they implemented the national scheme which involves robbing British citizens of their wealth by passing on to them the costs and loss-making of inefficient renewable energy systems.
The scheme that the British Government came up with was the Renewals Obligation Certificate (ROC). I found my details about this scheme at this website (additionally, the Wiki page is here, so I think I am being accurate according to its information (please let me know otherwise). ROCs are potentially “awarded”, by Ofgem, to all companies that generate power from accredited renewable sources. They are distributed in proportion to how much renewable energy is supplied. The recipient of the ROC could be a supplier, or a landowner; in the case of the latter, he can sell his ROCs to any supplier in order for the supplier to meet quotas, which is a feature of the system – as I am about to explain.
At some point during a cycle of energy production and ROC collection, ROCs are accounted for, and if you like, submitted back to Ofgem. Ofgem is expecting so many of these from each supplier as the number of ROCs represents performance in terms of meeting a quota for renewable energy sold on to its customers.
If a supplier hasn’t met its full quota, then it has to pay an amount that has equivalence to the deficit, into what, in some places, I have seen called a “fund”; in other places it is described as a fine to Ofgem. If a supplier has met its ROC quota, it is awarded proceeds from the fund; the more ROCs a supplier has, the bigger its share. Such suppliers, or so the blurb goes, can pass these proceeds onto customers as lower prices.
Suppliers who have to buy ROCs or pay a fine for missing their quota are liable, and indeed have already demonstrated their willingness, to pass on their losses to their customers in higher prices. It seems there is no leverage over suppliers to prevent them from doing this. According to Ofgem, in the year 2009 to 2010, an extra £522 million in energy costs passed on to customers came from losses because of wind power, with most losses stemming from onshore wind farms. In total, in 2009-10, the renewable energy industry was “subsidised” to the tune of £1.1 billion.
What has become starkly obvious is that these “subsidies” will only increase in years to come because of two factors. The first is how quotas are increased every year heading towards a huge 15.4% in 2015 – meaning 15.4% of energy supplied must be sourced by renewable means. In 2009-10 it was 9.7%. Secondly, and this seems to be general knowledge, as quotas grow, suppliers will be increasingly unable to meet them because renewable energy sources just do not produce enough electricity to meet requirements. It is reckoned, in certain sources of data that I have read, that an onshore wind turbine in the UK is only 10-30% efficient; in a 2010 article, the Daily Mail detailed wind farms with less than 10% efficiency. The combined effect of big quotas and equipment that can’t meet them will be catastrophic. By 2020 it is estimated that the annual cost to energy customers (you and me) of renewable energy will be running at over £5 billion.
The question you have to ask is this: why would your caring government make you liable to such massive poverty inducing penalties? The answer is that your government doesn’t care, and wants to make you poor by stealing from you. If we study the system from a different perspective, we’ll perhaps be able to see that more clearly.
Try and think of a ROC as a fiat currency – one that doesn’t really exist. Think of Ofgem as the bank that issues them – that creates wealth that isn’t really there. ROCs are essentially loaned to the suppliers, and interest is added or credit given depending on renewable energy production. However, because renewable energy doesn’t work, suppliers will generally just fall into debt with a currency that has no right to exist but which, nevertheless, they will repay by raising the cost of their energy that they supply to their customers.
The ROC system is a conspiracy to steal. We can say this because there is a very good chance that the crooks who hatched the scheme knew very well that renewable energy didn’t work. We can also say that, in all likelihood, the crooks who hatched the scheme always knew that there was never any existential threat to the planet whereby we needed renewable energy sources instead of cheap carbon burning power stations. There <em>is</em> no manmade climate change, and the industry and low-life characters that demand that such a thing does exist are only interested in creating a context where Green Energy robbery schemes will flourish.
The most cunning part of the British scheme is that it artificially inflates the price of energy irrespective of whether or not suppliers meet their quotas. Consider this example: if a supplier meets its full quota, it has an advantage over a competitor that doesn’t because it knows that it doesn’t have to make energy cheaper. It doesn’t have to make energy cheaper because its competitor CAN’T. As a consequence, energy suppliers who meet quotas do not need to pass onto customers the bonus that comes from the proceeds of the Ofgem fine. On the other hand, if they all come in on their quotas, then I assume that they all get rewarded – but where from? Directly from the tax-payer?
So, in the end, it doesn’t matter if 101 Tory MPs protest against certain types of wind farm. They need to protest against the entire renewables trading system – which, of course, they won’t – because while that exists, the citizenry of Britain is being robbed.
