Government unveils plan for 'decisive and permanent' shift away from fossil fuels

UK Energy White Paper

The UK government's long-awaited Energy White Paper is set to be unleashed alongside plans to establish a domestic UK emissions trading scheme from 2021.

The government has unveiled further details of its hotly-anticipated vision for the UK's net zero transition, signalling a major overhaul of Britain's energy market to scale up renewables, clean heating, nuclear, energy efficiency, carbon capture, and hydrogen technologies over the coming decade and beyond. The plan is detailed in the long-awaited Energy White Paper, which was published this morning, and sets out a wide-ranging strategy to support 220,000 new green jobs over the next 10 years and signals a "decisive and permanent shift away from our dependence on fossil fuels", accordi...