People wrongly believe that their energy bills are high due to subsidies to renewables.  Nothing could be further from the truth from Corporation Tax exemption for North Sea oil and gas rigs to hidden subsidies to nuclear.  It is not renewables that are causing a rise in energy bills has they receive a very small fraction of Government funding:
http://www.mng.org.uk/gh/nn.htm

So, it has now been revealed that this Government will continue with their subsidies.

Coalition makes U-turn on nuclear energy subsidies | Environment | guardian.co.uk.