said the energy strategy is ‘not enough’ and is ‘too little, too late’ to help families with rising costs.
A fleet of new nuclear power plants is at the heart of the strategy, with Mr Johnson claiming ‘nuclear is coming home’ and suggesting a new reactor will be built every year, in a social media video to promote the plan. The strategy is published as western countries wrestle with high energy prices and consider how to reduce reliance on Russian oil and gas
Some 5GW should come from floating offshore wind in deeper seas and planning reforms will slash approval times for new wind farms from four years to one year. A new licensing round for North Sea oil and gas projects is planned for the autumn to cover the ‘nearer term’, despite a UN report this week which called for rapid and substantial cuts to fossil fuel use to avoid dangerous warming.
Source: Energy Industry News (energyindustrynews.net)
We need to embrace existing nuclear energy (and next generation nuclear) to effectively tackle the climatecrisis and get to net zero/energy independence.
Yeah, but...
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