Once more 10 Clowning street leads us into a money loosing scheme. When will we ever get some politicians with brains, no matter how you spell it out for them they still insist on wasting money on ill thought out schemes. There must be a competion in Parliament to see who can waste the most money.

David, Helsinki, Finland

Wind power isn't the way to a renewable future; not while conventional alternatives need to step in every time the wind drops. Solar power could do a lot more to help, but not while it costs around £7000 to install a system capable of providing just 60% of an average family's hot water supply.

Howard Goodall, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom

Well now! I wonder where the New Labour Party will be looking to get their funds for the next General Election?

Dido Bendigo, Lochgilphead, Argyll

About time too!
Several years ago the 22,000 m2 Waterloo Station train shed roof was refurbished and the old glass roof replaced.
Half the roof ( 11,000m2 ) had South facing glass, and the possibility of laminated glass with photo-voltaic cells considered.
Option was turned down as too expensive!

Peter Hooper, Windsor, UK

I find it extrodinary that the government are now indroducing "green tax" when we are already covertly greentaxed. CERT (Carbon Emission Reduction Target) costs £20 per fuel per UK home - c£2.8bn over 3 years with other contributions from council tax taking it to £5bn over 3 years.

Pix, London, UK

Money is better spent on renewable energy schemes than financing a war. Infact the government should be spenting a 100 times more on solar pwer generation projects.They just injected 100 billion plus into the Rock bank fiasco.

Jim Wills, Brisbane, Australia

Well with all the hot air coming out of this Government wind turbines would be ideal.

Lammy, telford,

A decrease in the population would be a far better solution.
Reducing the 60 Million British population by 10 million would provide:
more housing, less traffic congestion, reduced NHS waiting lists, reduced pollution, reduced inflation.
All in all, the right way forward.
50 million for 2020.

Sean Hamerton, York., England.

Another excuse to raise taxes and dictate how we should live our lives.
Even if Britain sank beneath the sea tonight, and stopped producing any greenhouse gases at all, it would make no difference to global warming.

brummydoug, Birmingham, England

What nonsense this is. The grid infrastructure cannot take that volume of wind power and the more wind power there is the more unstable the grid becomes. We have abandoned decades of coal sitting under our feet and future generations will wonder why we left all these scrap metal follies for them.

DennisA, Newquay,

Rubbish. Higher bills are a result of the sell-out of utility companies to conglomerate owners such as EDF who are careful to exploit their monopolies, undeterred by a weak regulator

michael clarke, london, uk

Why can't we build a few more nuclear power stations?
Wouldn't this be money well-spent?

Fred, Cwm, Wales

The government is missing out on a trick here. Why not 'green tax' city bonuses?
Given the credit crunch fiasco and speculation-fuelled oil and food hikes, they don't deserve a penny of it. Even 50% tax would net a tidy £7bn a year for investment & grants in renewables, home insulation etc.

Stephen, Kirkcaldy, Scotland

The government is missing out on a trick here. Why not 'green tax' city bonuses?
Given the credit crunch fiasco and speculation-fuelled oil and food hikes, they don't deserve a penny of it. Even a 50% tax would net a tidy £7bn a year for investment & grants in renewables, home insulation etc.

Stephen, Kirkcaldy, Scotland

So when we have green power, and it's paid for, will the prices come down?

Rob Bain, Derby,

Wind farms do not work! They are expensive white elephants that have to have normal power stations online to back them up! In ten years there will be thousands of useless windmills waiting for the scrap merchants and all that money will have been wasted! Global warming is a money making scam!

Stephanie King, larnaca, Cyprus

Anyone suprised that Labour's response to any problem is higher taxes and a larger public sector ?
Are they hoping that "Greenwash" will distract us from their incompetent management of the economy ?

brummydoug, Birmingham, England

"Homeowners will be given financial incentives" this is what i call geen washing. I have a solar set up that was made for £1500. I could of got a comparable system using the govts "scheme" but this would have cost in excess of £7000. You have to use "appoved" companies, the system is a rip off.

bob, bristol,

More aspirations from Mr Brown - where is the detail

Mike, Gravesend, England

I still do not understand why the Solway Firth barrage was never built. Here we are surrounded by water ,miles of coastline,and what do we build. WIND turbines. I sometimes wonder.

g parker, auckland , new zealand

So he dare not instigate these price rises in this Parliament but instead will saddle the next Government with the pain and voter backlash?
If he was serious about climate change the conversion programme would be starting now. But Labour does not have the political courage.

Graham, Bradford, West Yorks

why not apply a profit tax to utilitiy companies - beat prices wouldn't rise so quickly then

Mike, Gravesend, England

I look forward to the Government's announcement that flight capacity has reached the maximum permitted and that there will be NO new development of airports or runways. New build will only be permitted when old is taken out of service.

Donna Walker, Effingham, England

What happens in 2020, if GHG continue to rise? Has anyone looked more closely at the ocean floors lately? Shelf spreading, thermal vents and many more volcanic eruptions are taking place which we didn't know existed. Methane ice is melting from the heat. Sea currents, C02 filling the oceans..

dan thorne, Washington, DC, USA

I think most people still believe that the green tax that is paid by them each year, was for this. Are we again paying extra towards something that the government should be paying for? Green tax and fuel surcharges for flying as a small example?

andy stayman, middlesbrough, england

WEll you can always ignore facts and be held to ransom by the oil and gas producers!

Mick, Winslow,

There have always been hidden supplements in utility bills, for Government promotion of pet projects, indulgence of friends in the NUM & NUR, etc,

But these new impositions should be paid by the enthusiasts and beneficiaries who promote global warming at the expense of the rest of us. Fat chance.

Albert, Paris,

Any time I see this level of rhetoric, I wonder which companies will benefit from these subsidies, and which MPs will invest in them.

Will we wait a decade to "discover" that there is something a bit dodgey about the whole thing?

jon livesey, Sunnyvale, CA/USA

More price rises, stealth-taxes and damage to our countryside under the cover of tackling 'climate change'.

Les, Southport, England