Build more wind and solar power to cut families' energy bills, say campaigners

Energy bills will be slashed if ministers make it easier to build new wind and solar farms and small nuclear power reactors, campaigners said today.

Britain Remade wants to relax planning rules so schemes can be accelerated and fuel prices cut for families.

The group today unveiled its “playbook for energy security by 2030”, with founder Sam Richards saying: “It must be possible to design a new set of planning rules and environmental protections that allows us to halt and reverse the decline of nature while at the same time enabling our amazing clean energy businesses to build the new sources of power we need to tackle climate change and to cut our bills.”