RenewableUK is urging new Prime Minister Liz Truss to speed up the roll-out of new renewable energy projects to help billpayers and boost the nation’s energy security
RenewableUK chief executive Dan McGrail said, “We are looking forward to working with the new Prime Minister and her team to take forward new measures to reduce energy bills, both in the short term and the long term.
“Firstly, it’s vital that she should re-commit to the ambitious targets set out in the Government’s Energy Security Strategy, which will move us further and faster towards energy independence.
“That means more than quadrupling our offshore wind capacity to 50 GW by 2030 – including 5 GW of innovative floating wind. We need to remove the barriers in the planning system which are unnecessarily delaying offshore wind development and upgrade our grid so that we can connect new offshore projects more quickly.
“Industry wants to work with Government on our plans to break the link between the exorbitant cost of gas and the price of electricity. This will enable billpayers to benefit more from the vast amounts of low-cost electricity being generated by wind and other renewables, by no longer allowing gas to call the tune in the energy market.
“Green hydrogen generated by electricity from wind is set to be a key technology in our future energy mix, as it can be stored to give us flexibility to use it whenever we like.
The Energy Security Strategy sets a target of 10 GW of hydrogen capacity by 2030 – at least half of which will be green hydrogen. We’re calling on the Prime Minister to recognise the importance of this cutting-edge technology which offers us the chance to build a whole new industry.”
