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The Government has updated its Energy Security Strategy, pledging to upgrade 300,000 of the country’s least energy-efficient homes, unveil carbon capture and storage projects and accelerate the development of green hydrogen, nuclear and floating offshore wind.
The government today (March 30, 2023) launched Powering up Britain, a blueprint for the UK to develop its own sources of clean energy to boost energy independence and green industries.
The UK government is committed to a programme of new nuclear projects beyond Sizewell C, giving industry and investors the confidence they need to deliver projects at speed, according to a new policy paper. It describes nuclear as "the critical baseload of the future energy system".
Grant Shapps outlined plans to boost the UK's green energy revolution this morning, but has faced strong blowback from the industry.
The government will extend its £5,000 grants for households to ditch polluting gas boilers and will move to speed up planning bottlenecks for offshore wind farm