Government net zero plan takes aim at emissions and costs

Ministers have said that they want the UK to have the cheapest energy in all of Europe, following months of soaring energy bills and high inflation.

The government is currently targeting reaching net zero by 2050, this plan will be seen as an important step in that direction.

The plan is titled ‘Powering Up Britain’ and was unveiled today (30 March) by the energy security and net zero secretary Grant Shapps.

However, Labour have labelled the plan a “re-hash” featuring no new investment.

Climate and renewable energy activists have welcomed further focus on UK based renewable projects, but some have stated that the plan feels like a “missed opportunity” to focus on improving house insulation.

Keir Starmer previously promised to create a publicly owned energy company called “Great British Energy” to combat the influence of the Chinese Communist Party on British Energy.

Grant Shapps told GB News: "The measures today, about 1,000 pages of different measures, all to do with our energy security because we have been hauled over the coals by Putin’s war in Ukraine, it has hit us all hard, the Government has ended up paying around half of the typical energy bill this winter.

"The plan today is to power Britain from Britain and all the different measures that we are going to take to make sure that that can happen in the future."