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The Energy White Paper :
Earlier this year the Department for Trade and Industry (DTI) stated: ?the UK faces significant challenges in the way we source, produce and use our energy in the medium & long term?. The first challenge we face is climate change, largely caused by the CO2 emitted in the burning of fossil fuel, which we have historically depended on in order to produce the energy we require to warm our houses, power transport and industries. The UK faces major consequences because of the rise in temperatures from climate change, as well as from the risk of increasing our country?s dependence on imported resources.
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To address this urgent matter the Government issued the Energy White Paper in 2003. This is a milestone in national energy policy that sets the key goals for energy in the UK. It is based on four pillars:
1. Environment: As a signed member to the Kyoto Protocol, the UK has pledged to cut down its CO2 emissions by 60% by 2050, as a key tool to reduce the country’s contribution to climate change.
2. Energy Reliability: The aim is to have the energy we need, when we need it.
3. Affordable energy for the poorest: The Government wants to ensure that every UK home is adequately and affordably heated.
4. Competitive markets for businesses, industries and households: Private sector companies in competitive markets need to deliver clean, reliable energy without excess cost to consumers.
2. Energy Reliability: The aim is to have the energy we need, when we need it.
3. Affordable energy for the poorest: The Government wants to ensure that every UK home is adequately and affordably heated.
4. Competitive markets for businesses, industries and households: Private sector companies in competitive markets need to deliver clean, reliable energy without excess cost to consumers.
The DTI have identified energy efficiency as the cheapest and safest way of addressing all four objectives. Renewable energy will also play an important part in reducing carbon emissions, strengthening energy security and improving industrial competitiveness in the country as we develop cleaner products and technologies.
EnvirUP can help you and your companies meet your energy requirements. Call our consultants on 0115 950 10 50
More information at: http://www.dti.gov.uk/energy/whitepaper/index.shtml
EnvirUP can help you and your companies meet your energy requirements. Call our consultants on 0115 950 10 50
More information at: http://www.dti.gov.uk/energy/whitepaper/index.shtml
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