Uk governments green energy push
The UK government this week has announced a whole host of policies aimed at cutting the UK’s carbon emissions by 34% by 2020 and 80% by 2050.
Ed Milliband, the climate change secretary, said that more than £100 billion will be invested in raising the proportion of energy from renewable sources from 2 per cent at present to 15 per cent by 2020. A number of programmes will be ontroduced, including a feed-in tariff aimed at boosting small-scale renewable energy; a “pay as you save” proposal, which would give the owners of 7 million homes loans for insulation, which will be repayable based on their energy bills; and a £6million fund to develop 60 low-carbon houses at the BRE park.
Miliband said Britain would meet 40% of its electricity needs from wind, tidal and nuclear by the end of the next decade. The government's overall plans believe 1.2million new green jobs will be created, although this week the Vestas factory in Newport, Isle of Wight, Britain’s only significant manufacturer of wind turbines, will produce its last batch of seven-tonne blades. More than 600 people employed at the plant, and a related facility in Southampton, will be made redundant at the end of the month. All 7,000 turbines that the Government will commit today to installing over the next decade will be manufactured overseas, mainly in Germany, Denmark and China.
Ed Milliband, the climate change secretary, said that more than £100 billion will be invested in raising the proportion of energy from renewable sources from 2 per cent at present to 15 per cent by 2020. A number of programmes will be ontroduced, including a feed-in tariff aimed at boosting small-scale renewable energy; a “pay as you save” proposal, which would give the owners of 7 million homes loans for insulation, which will be repayable based on their energy bills; and a £6million fund to develop 60 low-carbon houses at the BRE park.
Miliband said Britain would meet 40% of its electricity needs from wind, tidal and nuclear by the end of the next decade. The government's overall plans believe 1.2million new green jobs will be created, although this week the Vestas factory in Newport, Isle of Wight, Britain’s only significant manufacturer of wind turbines, will produce its last batch of seven-tonne blades. More than 600 people employed at the plant, and a related facility in Southampton, will be made redundant at the end of the month. All 7,000 turbines that the Government will commit today to installing over the next decade will be manufactured overseas, mainly in Germany, Denmark and China.
Other measures announced include:
- Plans to generate 40% of the UK’s electricity and 15% of the country’s energy from renewable sources by 2020.
- A £120million boost for offshore wind energy
£15m to establish a nuclear research centre, consisting of a consortium of manufacturers from the UK nuclear supply chain and universities. - £5million to build cycle racks at rail stations.
The foundation of the first Low Carbon Economic Area in the south-west of England, within which the central government would work with local governments to ease planning for low-carbon developments.
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