The Government's Energy White Paper highlights the main challenges facing the UK on the environment, the decline in available UK-sourced energy and maintaining a secure energy supply.
The Government's Energy White Paper aims to cut the UK's carbon dioxide emissions by some 60% by 2050, with real progress by 2020, and to maintain reliable and competitive energy supplies.
To address these challenges, the energy policy has four main goals :
Cutting UK carbon dioxide emissions by some 60% by about 2050 with real progress by 2020;
Maintaining the reliability of energy supplies;
Promoting competitive markets in the UK and beyond, helping to raise the rate of sustainable economic growth and to improve our productivity; and
Ensuring that every home is adequately and affordably heated.
The development and use of renewable energy will play a key role in achieving this target.
See the DTI website for more information about the Energy White Paper.
The Government's Energy White Paper aims to cut the UK's carbon dioxide emissions by some 60% by 2050, with real progress by 2020, and to maintain reliable and competitive energy supplies.