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Low-carbon electricity most cost-effective option for UK power sector

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New low-carbon electricity most cost-effective option for UK power sector – Friends of the Earth reaction.

Reacting to a new report today from the Government’s Committee on Climate Change saying that low-carbon electricity is the most cost-effective way to meet the need for more generation in the 2020s given the UK’s climate change commitments, Friends of the Earth senior energy campaigner Simon Bullock said:

“The Government’s own advisers say it will be cheaper to use low-carbon electricity rather than gas to power our economy in the 2020s.

“Ministers should be championing the UK renewable sector, instead of strangling the life out of solar and on-shore wind, threatening tens of thousands of jobs and pushing up bills in the future.

“Energy bill payers and our climate will pay a hefty price for the Government’s costly and short sighted obsession with gas, oil and fracking.”

ENDS

Notes to editors:

1. New low-carbon electricity generation is cost-effective option for UK power sector investment in 2020s and beyond – Committee on Climate Change report.

2. The Committee on Climate Change is an independent statutory body established under the Climate Change Act (2008) to advise the UK Government on setting carbon budgets, and to report to Parliament on the progress made in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

3. Cut to solar energy feed-in tariff puts up to 27,000 jobs at risk across the UK | Solar Trade Association (1 October 2015).

4. Onshore windfarms cheapest form of UK electricity, report shows.

For press information please contact the Friends of the Earth media team on 020 7566 1649.

Published by Friends of the Earth Trust

 

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