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Long-awaited Energy WhitePaper set to be unleashed alongside plan to establish domestic UK emissions trading scheme from 2021. Overall, it said the strategy would cut UK carbon emissions by 230 million metric tonnes over the next decade, the equivalent to permanently removing 7.5 million petrol cars from the roads.
The row over Sizewell led the headlines, but there is so much more to the Energy WhitePaper and its promise to deliver a decisive shift away from fossil fuels. Whisper it, but I'm not sure the inevitable reignition of the row over the UK's nuclear plans is the most important part of the long-awaited Energy WhitePaper.
Business stands ready to deliver the investment and innovation needed to turn ambition into reality, and the proposals outlined in the Energy WhitePaper will give firms further confidence to deliver new infrastructure'. Here, BusinessGreen rounds up all the reaction to the long-awaited policy document from across the green economy.
After several delays spanning at least a year, the government has finally unveiled vision for a future net zero energy system - here are the eight things you need to know about the long-awaited Energy WhitePaper. To describe autumn 2020 as a busy period for green economy policy in the UK would be an understatement.
Hitachi has officially scrapped plans to build new nuclearpower plants at Wylfa on Anglesey and Oldbury in Gloucestershire amid ongoing struggles to drum-up additional financing for the high profile projects, it confirmed today, dealing another major blow to the nuclear industry's ambitions in the UK.
government’s long-awaited energy whitepaper is out with confirmation of fresh negotiations with EDF over a new nuclearpower station and a drive to push up the price of carbon. Nuclear talks with EDF to resume. carbon trading to begin next year.
The situation reduced the need for fossil fuel power such as coal and gas, and also led to curbed demand for nuclearpower, as cheaper forms of renewable power such as wind and solar shouldered the lion's share of Britain's electricity needs.
Reports yesterday suggested the PM has been forced to delay several times a major speech touting a new policy and investment package for the green economy due to the disruption wrought by Covid-19. Nevertheless, environmental groups broadly welcomed the latest green policy signals.
energy whitepaper , the first step in the development of overarching new energy policy, claimed that the country’s power sector would be “overwhelmingly decarbonized” by the 2030s. And it's not properly factored into policy and regulation yet,” said Ault. The recent U.K.
The government is under growing pressure to unveil a host of long-awaited green policy plans and frameworks before the end of the year in order to help businesses mobilise a new wave of investment in net zero-compatible infrastructure.
The intervention comes at a critical time for the UK's nuclear industry. The last Labour government promised a "nuclear renaissance" over 12 years ago, but since then a series of project delays and deferred policy decisions has seen only one project start construction - EDF's high profile and controversial Hinkley Point development.
"Our green industrial revolution will be powered by the wind turbines of Scotland and the North East, propelled by the electric vehicles made in the Midlands and advanced by the latest technologies developed in Wales, so we can look ahead to a more prosperous, greener future.". This is just the tonic as we look to 2021," he added.
Reports yesterday suggested the PM has been forced to delay several times a major speech touting a new policy and investment package for the green economy due to the disruption wrought by Covid-19. Nevertheless, environmental groups broadly welcomed the latest green policy support.
The move comes as the Prime Minister gears up to shortly announce his hotly-anticipated 10-point green recovery plan, which is expected to feature support for offshore wind, nuclearpower, hydrogen, and carbon capture and storage (CCS), among other areas.
It comes as the Prime Minister gears up to shortly announce is hotly-anticipated 10-point green recovery plan, which is expected to feature support for offshore wind, nuclearpower, hydrogen, and carbon capture and storage (CCS), among other areas.
CBI chief policy director Matthew Fell said: "The Net Zero Strategy and [Spending] Review fills in some of the blanks on how we realise the UK's decarbonisation ambitions. The energy industry has shown what is possible with the right policies in place and is ready to invest further helping create jobs and growth across the country.".
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