Shadow Trade Secretary Alan Duncan has said that his party wanted to “explore every conceivable method of generating electricity before we go to nuclear”.

He and David Cameron believe that the future of the UK’s power should be “bottom-up and decentralised”, rather than provided by a few enormous power stations.

The Tories’ Energy Review’s interim findings argue that green energy options are on the brink of a scientific and technological revolution that could transform both effectiveness and affordability.
“We therefore believe it is now vital to give green energy a chance to demonstrate its potential on a level playing field with other sources of electricity.”

Trade and Industry Secretary Alistair Darling responded, “When you aren’t prepared to support low-carbon renewable energy, you’re going to get higher carbon emissions. It’s not that complicated.”
“If Cameron is going to talk green, sooner or later he’s going to have to do something green. Scrapping the Climate Change Levy and undermining renewables moves us further from a green future not towards it.”

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