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It’s not a problem with renewables.
Every year they are both cheaper and more efficient and provide more energy as a percentage. They’re the cheapest energy source, especially solar. But the govt decided that instead of continuing to invest in renewable energy tarrifs that it would instead invest in their financial sponsors in the oil and gas industry and give them subsidies instead. These are the most expensive sources of energy.
The Russian Ukraine conflict gave them a perfect excuse to raise prices, saying that there was less oil available but much more of the energy comes from gas, which is much cheaper than oil and is mainly sourced in the UK. The energy prices increased their prices because they wanted to, not because they didn’t have enough energy.
The government didn’t stop the energy companies from doing this, but instead paid the difference out of tax money which isn’t there, so essentially just increasing national debt. Meanwhile the energy companies have more than enough energy for the country, and their supply is actually increasing, although with decreased renewable energy subsidies, private investments have decreased, at least in the UK, and have increased elsewhere like in China.
The energy companies have made record profits, just like the oil companies make record profits everytime they say there is a fuel shortage, but they never run out of fuel to sell, the prices just goes up and their profits go up, then they donate to the politicians who helped them get record profits to get or stay in power, millions in donations is nothing when you make so many billions.
Meanwhile some countries with much more renewable energy have very cheap energy, sometimes even paying users to use electric because there is a surplus, and selling the surplus to nearby countries. Well the UK is also planning to export electricity to Europe, especially from its offshore wind farms, they can’t do that with an energy shortage, luckily there is no energy shortage.