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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Helena Horton Environment reporter

‘I don’t want this landscape to change’: the UK energy head making the local case for clean power

Emma Pinchbeck
Emma Pinchbeck: ‘Change can be frightening’. Photograph: Jonathan Hordle/Shutterstock

The prospect of pylons, wind turbines and solar farms springing up across the countryside has upset a number of UK communities. But the head of Energy UK, Emma Pinchbeck, believes there is a way to decarbonise our electricity and sooth these tensions.

Pinchbeck is tapped to be the next leader of the Climate Change Committee, and currently represents the industry charged with decarbonising the grid at the cheapest and fastest rate possible.

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