EXCLUSIVE: Sir Keir to give EU control of UK electricity - “All pay, no say”

Electric shock - Huge new costs have been discussed with the EU, on top of bills for the supply

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With EU bills this high for us all, will any of Sir Keir’s ‘EU Re-Set’ be worth the candle?

Facts4EU asks:
“Did the EU see our ‘Giving it all away’ Prime Minister coming?”

The startlingly high level of annual costs the EU will be demanding from the British taxpayer to join its grid is likely to be so bad we would describe it as “All pay and no say”. Additionally, the UK is required to give up any control of the amount of electricity coming from the grid, with stringent conditions attached.

In response to questioning by GB News, to whom we gave an advance copy of this report, we told them:“Of all the elements of the Government’s EU Re-Set, they don’t come more important than the security of supply of the UK’s electricity – and its costs.” As with many major reports such as this, we acknowledge the assistance of ‘Stand for Our Sovereignty’ and the Campaign for an Independent Britain (CIBUK.org).

So far, the Government has said very little about this, so we looked at the EU’s output which is far more extensive. This report is built on references to the extra costs which are involved in EU internal documents taken from the EU’s new ‘transparency’ system.

The truly shocking part of the costs which are in the EU documents relate to a vast area of the EU’s budget which has nothing to do with electricity. It is potentially so expensive, and so unconnected with the grid, that the Government’s failure to inform the public can only be described as “lying about the Re-Set by omission”.

What will we be paying for, if this goes ahead – and why?

The bizarre element to this story is that the EU are demanding the UK share in the astronomical cost of its ‘Economic, Social and Territorial Cohesion funding’ – something it had to do as a Member.

One part of this funding is actually called “the Cohesion Fund”. For years, the UK contributed to this Fund. Asd we reported over the years, the sums were enormous, yet the UK never received a single Euro from it. The UK paid in billions but the EU never paid out.

How much could be demanded by the EU this time?

The EU’s paperwork does not contain actual numbers but with the overall sums involved it seems the total demanded from the UK will be high.

As a member, the UK contributed around 13.5% of the total budget for these funds. Even if the EU sets the UK’s percentage to be one-quarter of its previous level, it would still involve payments in the order of billions.

What this money pays for: “Reducing economic and social disparities” in the EU (but not in the UK)

To bring this home to readers, we are showing examples of what this money was spent on when the UK was a Member of the EU.

While British people were despairing of ever having decent roads and reliable train services, Poland and other countries were having the 'Rolls Royce' of infrastructure projects built. And this all happened partly at the expense of the UK taxpayer.

Below is an example from a report we published in 2018.

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[Source(s) : EU Commission / Wikipedia Commons Licence]

The Government’s “news blackout” over this information

Crucially, the EU’s demand for the UK to pay into this fund is not even mentioned in the Government’s pre-Christmas statement. It is only via painstaking research that we are able to bring this information to readers' attention.

Unsurprisingly, we and our colleagues at Stand for our Sovereignty and CIBUK are accusing the Government of operating “a news blackout” about this extra layer of cost for the UK economy. These potentially massive costs will be levied over and above the cost of the electricity and on top of paying the EU for a significant administration fee.

The EU itself provides the proof

According to the EU, since Sir Keir Starmer’s UK-EU Re-Set Summit on 19 May 2025, the Commission and the UK Government have explored in detail “the necessary conditions” for the UK's possible participation in the Union's internal electricity market.

The official paperwork has been approved by the EU Parliament’s ‘COREPER’ and has been sent to the Council of the 27 EU countries to sign. It includes the following.

The questions must surely be:

• What do economic conditions between EU countries have to do with the UK, and
• What relevance does this have to Sir Keir’s desire to sign the UK up to the EU’s electricity market?

It’s all pay and no say

Throughout the EU Commission’s paper, over and again it is reiterated that EU rules will apply, that the UK should immediately align with any changes, and that the UK will have no say. Here are just a few examples:-

It isn't just the potential cost, it's the loss of control of an important part of our energy

In addition to all this, there are even more conditions which the documents we have seen impose on the UK. The language used is typically dictatorial, as if the UK were in fasct a Member of the EU. One of immediate relevance is that the UK will not be allowed to deviate from EU Net Zero policy. Just as progress is now finally being made with approvals being given for North Sea oil and gas field exploitation, this could all be dis-applied if it contravenes the EU’s policies.

"The envisaged agreement should also ensure the dynamic alignment of the laws of the United Kingdom with the rules of the Union on the promotion of renewable energy and provide for their simultaneous application in the United Kingdom. It should set an indicative global target for the share of renewable energy in the gross final consumption of energy in the United Kingdom. To ensure a level playing field, the global target should be comparable to that of the Union and based on the definitions, requirements and methodologies set by the Union acquis."

In other words, the UK can kiss goodbye to any idea of an independent energy policy.

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Finally, who will control our grid?

Then there's the question of who actually controls the UK's own electricity grid. As an independent country it might be thought this question has an obvious answer. In fact, the EU has other ideas. Here is what they have to say about this.

"Finally, the agreement should provide for the participation of the relevant UK regulatory authority, in respect of Great Britain, in the Union agency ACER, without a right to vote, in line with the requirements of the Union acquis. It should also extend to the United Kingdom, in respect of Great Britain, the competences of ACER in terms of regulatory oversight over the functioning of the internal electricity markets."

This puts the EU's agency in effective charge of our grid. 'ACER' will be in charge and we will be doing what is in the interests of the EU, not the UK. This is all incredibly dangerous for our energy security. We sincerely hope that no responsible Government should ever sign up to anything like this.

The above are just two examples. The EU wrote 20 pages including a great number of conditions which the UK must abide by - too many to detail here but which are onerous to say the least. Conversely, the UK Government wrote just five paragraphs and did not mention the extra costs once and nor did it list the onerous conditions. In its latest document on 25 March 2026, it published a lot of technical detail about interconnectivity, but again did not mention the extra costs of the EU Re-Set proposals, nor the conditions attached.

[ Sources: EU Commission | No.10 | Dept for Net Zero | Facts4EU archives ] Politicians and journalists can contact us for details, as ever.

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