'It's not about giving stuff up!' Dale Vince fears Net Zero being viewed as a crusade for the middle-classes

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Net Zero risks being viewed as a crusade for the middle-classes, one of the country's most influential green industrialists has told GB News.Wind farm tycoon Dale Vince, founder of Ecotricity, wants the debate over green energy reframed so that people understand that "it's not about giving stuff up".

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He argues that too much time is spent talking about technologies that he says benefit the wealthy, such as heat pumps.

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Although they help burnish green credentials he says they can seem out of reach of working people.This risks green energy becoming ‘ghettoised", the Labour donor warns, when it would be better to extol its benefits.

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say Allowing ‘green gas', or biomethane, to warm our homes would see billions flow into rural communities, he says, while ‘breaking the link' between the cost of gas and the cost of electricity would see bills plummet."I've been saying this for a long time now", he explains.

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