Independent: The energy challenge

We must harness resources such as wind and nuclear power to create a sustainable and low-carbon economy

Britain faces an energy challenge in the coming decades which is unprecedented, and all the more formidable for being double-faced. It would be bad enough if the challenge were just to keep the lights on. Four factors will make that a tough job, and make our supply of domestic energy considerably more problematic in the near future: the soaring global demand for fossil fuels; the costs, risks and difficulties of extracting them from ever more difficult places such as the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico; the drying-up of our own oil gusher, the North Sea; and the coming obsolescence of a substantial part of our own electricity-generating plant.

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