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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Toby Helm and Fiona Harvey

Top UK energy firms to warn Rishi Sunak: ‘Don’t back off green agenda’

Former Cop26 president Alok Sharma wants to reform planning rules to allow more onshore wind turbines such as the Causeymire windfarm in Caithness
Former Cop26 president Alok Sharma wants to reform planning rules to allow more onshore wind turbines such as the Causeymire windfarm in Caithness. Photograph: Doug Houghton/Alamy

More than 100 of the UK’s biggest energy companies will tell Rishi Sunak this week not to back off the green agenda after a report by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) warned of catastrophic effects on the economy of continued overreliance on gas.

The energy sector is becoming so alarmed at what it sees as the Sunak government’s mixed messages on switching to more renewable energy that big UK companies are ready to go public with a letter to Downing Street within days.

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