A watershed on energy?

This energy review, the second in three years, is far more than a justification of nuclear power. It may also be justly remembered as the moment when an oil-obsessed, energy-profligate department of industry read the runes and began a slow turn towards creating a low-carbon economy in response to climate change and future energy shortages.

And it could also mark the moment when the penny finally dropped across all government that it’s not efficient to pollute, and that there’s more money to be made in saving energy than in generating it. Even if there are no firm policy commitments, in that sense the review is a triumph.
Increasing the renewable electricity target to 20% by 2020 is still nowhere near enough to meet the real challenge of climate change, and increasing the biofuel target to 10% is no more than Brussels already demands, but it is the tone of the report that marks a real change. The language is one of potential and possibility, for the individual as much as for business and local government.

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