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

What does Sunak’s plan for new gas plants mean for UK climate targets?

South Humber Bank Power Station at Stallingborough, North Lincolnshire
South Humber Bank power station at Stallingborough, North Lincolnshire. The prime minister, Rishi Sunak, wants to encourage investment in new gas plants. Photograph: AP S (uk)/Alamy

Rishi Sunak’s plan to encourage investment in a string of new gas plants to power the country into the next decade has raised questions over Britain’s future climate ambitions – and the government’s energy policy record.

The government’s biggest set of electricity market reforms in over a decade has angered green campaigners who claim that successive policy failures have forced the government to pin Britain’s energy security on fossil fuels.

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