{"id":1244990,"date":"2022-11-06T01:09:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T01:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/06\/why-high-uk-energy-bills-were-decades-in-the-making\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T01:09:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T01:09:02","slug":"why-high-uk-energy-bills-were-decades-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/06\/why-high-uk-energy-bills-were-decades-in-the-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Why high UK energy bills were decades in the making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/_127473791_gettyimages-1390048754-594x594.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Without state support, his project was sunk. Then the government went even further, ruling out any public subsidies for gas storage. It meant no state handouts for Rough, the UK\u2019s largest gas storage facility, which was unable to afford engineering upgrades and was mothballed in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without state support, his project was sunk. Then the government went even further, ruling out any public subsidies for gas storage. It meant no state handouts for Rough, the UK\u2019s largest gas storage facility, which was unable to afford engineering upgrades and was mothballed in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1244992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1244990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1244990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1244990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1244990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1244990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}