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CLA vision for green energy supplies in the 21st Century In its response to the Government's Energy Review consultation, the Country Land and Business Association (CLA) warns that reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions will add costs but that, in order to secure a thriving economy, energy efficiency alone cannot be relied on. CLA's chief surveyor Oliver Harwood says: "We have laid out a range of policy recommendations, which we consider are likely to deliver carbon neutral electricity generation, at the same time as delivering significant carbon savings in other forms of energy supply, notably in renewable heat and transport fuels.
Our members, like other business and domestic consumers rely on electricity. However, even in renewables, carbon savings can be achieved at lower costs in the heat sector which has so far been ignored in policy terms. We find this astonishing, given that more than a third of UK emissions are created in space and process heating."
But the CLA argues that the framing of the consultation document suffers from a lack of joined up thinking in its analysis and approach and begs two important questions
"Firstly, the review fails to offer a vision of what a sustainable energy system might look like in future years in its reliance on market delivery of the outcomes. More attention should be addressed to the big picture. And secondly, we feel that no more than lip service has been paid to the role of renewable heat and CHP.
"If the UK must replace large scale generation capacity, surely the obvious answer, faced with an overriding need to meet Climate Change objectives, is to design policy frameworks that will ensure they are replaced with, at the least, higher efficiency and, ideally, low or zero carbon generation? Why are we still land-filling valuable biomass fuels? Where is the incentive for new biomass CHP to come from?"
The CLA offers its own vision for clean, affordable energy for the long term which underpins our responses to the consultation document – where investment in new energy infrastructure for the 21st century is based on local and micro-generation |
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