Ill winds are blowing for Labour’s 2030 deadline for clean energy
07-05-2025 19:38 via theguardian.com

Ill winds are blowing for Labour’s 2030 deadline for clean energy

Loss of the vast Hornsea 4 offshore wind project is bad news but it reveals a big flaw in setting a deadlineDanish firm shelves huge UK windfarm project over rising costs“Immensely challenging” and pushing the limits “of what is feasibly deliverable”. That was the state-owned National Energy System Operator’s description of its own proposals on how to decarbonise electricity generation in Great Britain by 2030. In short, it thought clean power by that date, a key La
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