(Natural News)—In the race to embrace renewable energy, the UK has found itself in a costly predicament. Wind energy, once hailed as the silver bullet for our energy woes, is now proving to be a significant financial burden. The UK has spent more than £1 billion this year alone to turn off wind farms and start up gas plants in a stark reminder that hasty decisions without proper planning can lead to disastrous consequences.

It’s not surprising that wind energy is failing to live up to its promises. Governments, driven by the fervor of achieving net-zero targets, have blindly pushed for alternative energy without fully considering the drawbacks. The UK’s energy grid, designed for a different era, is struggling to cope with the surge in wind power. The result? A record amount of wind power is being wasted, and consumers are footing the bill.

The UK has boosted its offshore wind fleet by 50% in the past five years and plans to double it over the next five years. However, the grid infrastructure has not expanded at the same pace. This mismatch has led to the operator paying wind farms to turn off, particularly those in Scotland, to prevent grid overload. The irony is palpable: while the UK pays Scottish wind farms to shut down during windy conditions, it simultaneously pays for gas-powered plants in the south to fire up. This absurd scenario highlights the flawed logic of rushing into renewable energy without considering the big picture.

The problem is exacerbated by the UK’s energy system rules, which are outdated and ill-equipped to handle the complexities of balancing supply and demand in real time. To keep the lights on, the operator is forced to shut down far-flung wind farms and start up gas-fed plants closer to demand centers. This not only undermines their misguided decarbonization goals but also increases energy bills, making it harder for consumers to benefit from the touted advantages of renewable energy.

Clem Cowton, director of external affairs at Octopus Energy Group, rightly criticizes the “outdated rules” of the energy system. However, the blame should not be solely on the rules but also the lack of foresight and planning. The mad rush to achieve net-zero targets has resulted in bad planning, with little to no consideration for the practicalities of integrating large-scale wind energy into the existing grid.

A cautionary tale

This situation should serve as a cautionary tale for other countries considering similar energy transitions. Wind power, like electric vehicles, is often portrayed as a panacea for our environmental woes. However, the reality is far more complex. Wind energy is expensive, environmentally harmful, and, as the UK is discovering, often inefficient. Consumers are not only paying for the construction of these wind farms but also for their failings. The question remains: who will bear the cost of deconstructing these wind farms when the climate change crisis, much like the COVID-19 pandemic, loses its urgency?

The looming return of President-elect Donald Trump to the White House has just planted a bomb under Labour’s Net Zero obsession. With a Trump-led America pulling in the opposite direction, the UK’s ambitious decarbonization plans may face even greater political peril.

The UK’s experience with wind energy is a costly lesson in the dangers of hasty green policies. Governments must approach renewable energy with caution, ensuring that infrastructure and regulations are in place to support the transition and that it truly is a better alternative, which isn’t the case with wind power. Blindly pushing for alternative energy without considering the drawbacks is not only financially irresponsible but also undermines the very goals it seeks to achieve. The UK’s £1 billion wind energy fiasco should serve as a wake-up call for policymakers worldwide.

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According to the official figures, for the first half of 2024 alone, 1,317 migrants who arrived at the U.K. border disguised themselves as children. This eclipses the combined totals for similar cases from 2017, 2018 and 2019. (Related: Hungary pushes through with plan to bus illegal immigrants to Brussels.)

Among the asylum seekers found falsely claiming their age, 283 came from Afghanistan, 282 from Sudan, 236 from Vietnam and 140 from Eritrea. As unaccompanied minors are far less likely to be deported, age-dispute cases have surged, with 2,122 age-related challenges launched this year alone.

Officials believe human traffickers are encouraging adult men, often without proper documentation, to claim they are underage to increase their chances of receiving asylum, better housing, leniency in legal proceedings and avoiding deportation.

Labour Party Member of Parliament Dame Angela Eagle, serving as Minister of State for Border Security and Asylum, confirmed in a statement that 20 percent of new arrivals in the U.K. falsely claim to be underage to “get a better deal.”

“There is an issue about identifying correctly those who are children,” she said in a Labour Party conference in Liverpool on Sept. 30. “About 20 percent of the people that come across in boats at the moment are claiming they’re children. Not all of them are. And so clearly the signal has gone out that if you claim you’re a child, then you’re going to get a better deal. There are safeguarding issues one way or the other, if you let adults in the children’s system, or children in the adults system, that we’ve got to try to sort out.”

Afghan murderer claimed to be 14-year-old orphan to enter U.K.

The inability of immigration officials to detect these deceptions has led to deadly consequences. One such case involves Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai, a 22-year-old Afghan national who had already committed two murders in Serbia before arriving in the United Kingdom.

Abdulrahimzai entered Britain in December 2019 by falsely claiming to be a 14-year-old orphan. He was placed in foster care and school in Bournemouth, Dorset, where he proceeded to harass young girls into sending him explicit images of themselves.

Abdulrahimzai was later convicted of fatally stabbing 21-year-old aspiring Royal Marine Thomas Roberts during an altercation outside a restaurant in Bournemouth in 2022.

Other high-profile examples include Parsons Green bomber Ahmed Hassan, who posed as a 16-year-old before detonating a bomb on a London Tube train in 2017, which injured 23 people. His true age remains uncertain, but the judge concluded that he was likely between 18 to 21 years old at the time of the attack.

In another notable incident, Iranian asylum seeker Siavash Shah was found attending a Year 11 class at Stock High School in Ipswich despite being significantly older than other people in his class. A student exposed Shah’s age by sharing a photo of him online with the caption: “How’s there a 30-year-old man in our maths class?”

In 2010, Iraqi asylum seeker Rabar Hamad attended secondary school and studied for his General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) despite being 20 years old, four years older than his stated age.

Visit Migrants.news for more stories about illegal immigration all over the world. Watch this clip from “The Dana Show” as host Dana Loesch discusses New York City’s decision to cut spending as it seeks more funding to deal with the migrant crisis.

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