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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent

Labour must speed up wind power expansion or miss targets, says renewables industry

RWE's Gwynt y Mor, eight miles off Liverpool Bay, off the coast of north Wales
RWE's Gwynt y Mor, eight miles off Liverpool Bay, off the coast of north Wales. Labour has been told it must increase the scale and funding of offshore wind auctions. Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA

Labour’s clean energy targets may already be in jeopardy just weeks after the party came to power with the promise to quadruple Britain’s offshore wind power, according to senior industry executives.

The offshore wind industry has said there will not be enough time to develop the projects needed to create a net zero electricity system by the end of the decade unless ministers increase the ambition and funding of the government’s upcoming “make or break” subsidy auctions.

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