The note – entitled Changing the message – argues that with renewables such as onshore wind and PV moving towards an “unassailably” cheaper cost of energy profile than fossils and nuclear, the time is right to stress that fact more loudly in the public debate.
The extremely well-funded lobbying machine of other energy interests has proved adept at keeping the need to subsidise renewables in the public eye, the note adds, forcing the clean-power sector’s own trade bodies to fight on the same ground.
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