The CCC has criticised Britain's lack of a strategy to meet its targets of decarbonising electricity supplies in the next 12 years.
“The government has not yet provided a coherent strategy to achieve its goal, nor provided essential details on how it will encourage the necessary investment and infrastructure to be deployed over the next 12 years," reads a report published by the committee.
The report includes 25 recommendations the government should implement in order to reach a decarbonised power system, described as “the central requirement for achieving net zero”.
It includes a series of “urgent changes”, such as removing barriers from the regulatory, planning and consenting regimes for the development of new infrastructure. In addition, the CCC advises the government to offer new incentives and business models to generate £300-430bn of investment.
The authors say these reforms could help the UK generate about 70 per cent of its electricity...