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Renewable energy rent-seekers come in all shapes and sizes, from mega windfarm outfits to well-to-do middle-class households.

And in either instance, it pays never stand between them and a bucket of someone else’s money. Any threat to the subsidy stream is met with howls about their ‘right’ to benefit from other people’s labours.

You don’t have to be a dotcom billionaire to have a house covered in shiny panels, but the bigger the pad, the bigger the burden on the taxpayers who foot the bill.

At the other end of the income spectrum, the poor rarely own their own homes and rent, meaning that they never get the benefit of solar subsidies; and, likewise, the low-income earners that do own their own modest homes, can never afford the panels that plaster the grand piles of the mega-rich.

There’s an obsequious form of smugness that comes with plastering the family home…