Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng
(Picture: PA Wire)A Cabinet minister admitted on Thursday that struggling households faced with rising energy bills will not feel the benefits from the Government’s new energy security strategy for “three to four years”.
The long-delayed plan — aimed at reducing Britain’s reliance on foreign sources of energy following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — sets ambitious new targets for offshore wind power and the expansion of nuclear power, as well as boosting North Sea oil and gas production in the shorter term.
