能源部长表示，随着政府探索通过税收来为绿色基础设施项目提供资金，原本需要从消费者账单中收取的数十亿英镑的额外费用可能会被免除。
Billions of pounds worth of green levies could be taken off bills, the energy secretary has said, as the government investigates funding green infrastructure through taxes instead.
Miatta Fahnbulleh正在研究绿色项目的资金来源问题，包括对不同用户征收不同的费用，以及如何通过一般税收来为这些项目提供资金。
Miatta Fahnbulleh is looking at how green projects are funded, including varying levies between customers and funding them all through general taxation. Such a move could save customers an average of £120 a year, but could involve putting up taxes by as much as £3bn.
这样的举措平均每年可以为消费者节省120英镑的费用，但同时也可能意味着税收总额增加30亿英镑。由于伊朗战争等原因，预计明年家庭电费将上涨超过400英镑，因此政府正在寻求短期内降低成本的办法。然而，如果通过税收来为风力发电场、太阳能电池板以及家庭保温等绿色项目提供资金，那就意味着必须在其他方面削减开支或提高税收。
With households facing a predicted rise in electricity bills next year of more than £400 largely because of the Iran war, ministers are looking for ways to bring down costs in the short term. Paying for schemes such as windfarms, solar panels and home insulation through taxation however would either mean cuts elsewhere or raising taxes. Fahnbulleh told the Guardian’s Politics Weekly podcast: “There is a question that needs to be answered … we have to think about the costs and how we recover it in the most fair way.
Fahnbulleh在接受《卫报》政治周刊（Politics Weekly）播客采访时说：“有一个问题需要回答……我们必须考虑这些项目的成本，以及如何以最公平的方式来弥补这些成本。我的核心问题是：既然这些项目存在固定成本，如果我们希望建立一个具有韧性的能源系统、一个能够满足我们能源需求的系统，那么最公平的支付方式究竟是什么？这既涉及到政府与消费者之间的关系，也涉及到消费者内部的不同群体之间的费用分配问题。其他国家也在探讨类似的问题，最终我们必须找到一个公平的解决方案。”
“And so the question that I am generally asking is: given that there will be fixed costs, if we want a system that is resilient, if we want a system that can cope, if we want a system that ultimately can deliver the diversity of energy that we want, what is the fairest way in which we pay for it? “That is both across the exchequer versus our bill payers, and then within our bill payers. So we have to ask that question. Every other country is asking that question, and ultimately we’ve got to come to a fair deal.”
环保组织MCS基金会（MCS Foundation）的最新分析指出，这样的举措每年可以为消费者节省约120英镑的电费开支，但同时会让政府每年多支出30亿英镑。
Campaigners have long argued that Britain’s model of paying for its energy transition through bills is unfair compared with systems in other countries that spread the cost among taxpayers, with repayment based on how much a person earns.
法恩布勒表示她会削减各项开支，但她并未重申她前任埃德·米利班德所承诺的“每年将开支减少300英镑”的目标。她说：“衡量我工作成败的唯一标准就是能否真正实现这一目标；这也是我担任这一职务的唯一目的。”不过她也承诺会继续推动应对气候危机的各项工作，即使面临来自“改革党”（Reform Party）和保守党的日益激烈的政治攻击。
Analysis by the MCS Foundation, a green energy charity, recently found such a move would save about £120 a year on bills but would cost the Treasury a little more than £3bn a year. Fahnbulleh said she would cut bills, but did not recommit to her predecessor Ed Miliband’s pledge to bring them down by £300 a year“My mark of failure or success is whether I can get bills down or not,” she said. “That’s the only thing I’m in this job to do.”But she also promised to keep pushing action to tackle the climate crisis, even in the face of increasing political attacks by Reform and the Conservatives.
她说道：“我对‘改革党’和保守党的挑战是：等到下次选举时，如果我能证明我们创造了多少就业机会、发展了多少产业和工厂，我就会对他们说：‘如果你们想破坏这些成果，那就去和那些受影响的社区谈谈吧。’”“最终，我认为他们会屈服的——因为他们站在了错误的一边；不仅在经济问题上，更是在历史正确的一方。”
“My challenge to Reform and to the Tories is, when we come to the next election, and I can point to the jobs that have been created, I can point to the industries and the factories that we’ve created, I will say to them: ‘If you want to pull the rug on that, you go talk to those communities,’” she said. “And in the end, I think they will bow because they are on the wrong side – not just of economics, but they’re on the wrong side of history on this.”