Managing costs, appeasing consumers, and diversifying our energy supply are all crucial to ensuring the target can be met with voters’ consent.
The Government’s ‘Energy Security Strategy’ may well deliver long-term energy security. But it will do almost nothing for squeezed households right now.
He argues that the UK could expand offshore energy production, but on land as they “can create something of an eyesore”.
The Russian invasion in Ukraine is not a reason to give up on it. Rather, it is a reason to redouble efforts to get there as quickly as possible.
The third in a series of articles on how the Chancellor should approach the upcoming Spring Statement.
We need to think a little less about the targets, and much more about what people can afford.
When the Chancellor has to sub you two hundred quid to keep the lights, some fresh ideas are needed.
For the sake of our bills as well as our security interests, we need to double down on homegrown green energy instead.
Ministers have no sufficient answers to the question: ‘how do we keep the lights on?’
We are the party of mobility and enterprise. But we are also the party of community and belonging. What is it to be – roots or wings?
Electricity generation policy must refocus on dispatchable low-emissions plant that can to deliver a secure and competitive system.
By uniting behind Johnson’s plan, and replicating the approach of these two mayors, the the environment can become a winning issue for the party.
The success in procurement and distribution prompts the question of what else we are outstandingly good at.
The second piece in a mini-series on climate change, COP26 and the environment on ConservativeHome this week.
The Prime Minister asked for a “grown-up” approach to energy. Here are the policies required to deliver it.