Boris Johnson’s former climate adviser has backed Labour’s plans to make Britain energy secure by 2030, the Guardian has learned.
He added: “To go from being a net importer to a net exporter of electricity in less than seven years is going to be a mammoth challenge. We’ll need to lift the ban on onshore wind and dramatically cut the time it takes to build new offshore wind and solar. The pro-growth campaign group argues that if international gas prices were to spike by 400% again, electricity bills would only rise by 20%, not the 235% they rose by between winter 2021-22 and January 2023. Assuming that electricity bills returned to 2019 levels, this would mean another historic rise in gas prices would only lead to a £10 a month increase in electricity bills for the average household.