Oliver Dowden, the deputy prime minister, visited Able Seaton Port in north-east England, where he said Dogger Bank would “generate cheap, clean energy to power millions of homes and provide the UK with greater energy independence in the face of Putin’s energy ransom”.ĭowden added: “Disruption to global energy supplies is one of the key risks we’ve highlighted in our new national risk register and working with SSE and its partners, we are making Britain more secure.First campaign to install turbines at world’s largest offshore wind farm is underwayģrd August 2023 in Press releases, Project news He told the gathering of about 20 energy bosses that the government was committed to pursuing its ambition of creating a net zero carbon economy despite the prime minister offering oil and gas companies a string of new exploration licences for the North Sea and billions to develop carbon capture technology earlier this week. Shapps was forced to defend the government’s commitment to its green targets at a summit of Britain’s biggest investors in green energy held at No 10 on Wednesday. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. For more information see our Privacy Policy. skip past newsletter promotionĮnter your email address Sign up Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. Grant Shapps, the energy secretary, said the extra funding would “help grow our economy by making Britain the first choice for investors in renewable energy projects and secure skilled jobs for future generations”. In response the government agreed to increase the subsidy pot to support new renewable energy projects by £22m to take the total budget to £227m for the next auction for subsidy contracts. The Swedish energy firm Vattenfall said it would stop work on the multibillion-pound Norfolk Boreas windfarm, designed to power the equivalent of 1.5m British homes, because it was no longer profitable. Last month the government’s green energy ambitions were dealt a blow after plans for a giant offshore windfarm off the Norfolk coast ground to a halt due to increasing supply chain costs and rising interest rates. “We’ve got to remember that the price of power from is still way lower than what we see coming from imported fuels, and gas in particular.” “Government needs to put in place the flexibility to ensure that we can still build these windfarms,” he said. Phillips-Davies said that future windfarms would require the government’s subsidies to keep pace with the rising costs of materials and services as a result of significant inflation in the UK economy. Hopefully we’ll see first power from this windfarm over the next week or so.” We’ve got a big boat out there, which has five of the enormous wind turbines on it and that’s circling around looking to start the installation. “We’ve been laying foundations for the last year now. “It’s a fantastic day for us,” Alistair Phillips-Davies, the chief executive of SSE, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Thursday. Once complete the £9bn Dogger Bank windfarm will be more than double the size of the next largest offshore windfarm operating today and be capable of powering the equivalent of 6m British homes.
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