Government urged to make renewable energy supply a priority
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Green energy could be key to securing energy supplies both internationally and domestically, a new report commissioned by the Prime Minister Gordon Brown concluded today.
The report - ‘Energy Security: a national challenge in a changing world’ report - by the Prime Minister’s Special Representative on International Energy, Rt. Hon. Malcolm Wicks MP charts the UK’s move from a position of relative energy independence to a greater dependence on energy imports.
Wicks argues that the move to a low carbon economy is as vital to energy security as it is to tackling climate change. He strongly recommends the Government pursues energy efficiency and home grown sources of energy with maximum pace and ambition.
“Energy reserves are concentrated in some of the most unstable parts of the world,” said Wicks. “That’s an issue of national security. There is no crisis but we can never be complacent. As we move out of recession, the global grab for energy will resume in earnest, consumption is predicted to rise, and with it prices.
“Complete energy independence is an unrealistic goal but there is much we can do to insulate ourselves from the risks, in large part by driving our climate policies even further, quicker. We must be far smarter with the energy we use and invest in home grown energy sources, such as new nuclear and renewables without delay.”
