The UK will need to build more pylons, including in areas where people do not want them, communities have been warned.
Emma Pinchbeck, who has been appointed as the new chief executive of the independent advisory Climate Change Committee but was speaking in her current role as head of industry body Energy UK, said the push for clean energy was the best way to insulate the UK against price shocks.
She pointed to estimates that another price shock, similar to that caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in the 2030s would cost the UK £50 billion – the equivalent of wiping out the investment in Britain announced at this week’s Government investment summit.
And she said the UK would have to build more electricity infrastructure, for the electric heating and cars that will need to be rolled out to meet carbon cutting targets, as well as things such as data centres and new housing estates.
Speaking to the UK100 network of local leaders on net zero’s clean energy superpower summit at London’s County Hall, she said there was a need to build “at…
