Source · Select Committees · Environmental Audit Committee
Recommendation 49
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Acknowledged
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Ultimate responsibility for energy security and decarbonisation remains unclear within Government
Conclusion
Energy security is vital to the UK’s national interest: responsibility within Government for promoting and ensuring energy security ought to be crystal clear. In a rapidly changing governance structure which includes new responsibilities for Ofgem and the new NESO body, it is unclear to us who holds ultimate responsibility for ensuring energy security and resilience while also driving forward progress on decarbonisation.
Government Response Summary
The government states its mission to make Britain a clean energy superpower and plans to set out more detail on its approach to Clean Power by 2030, including how progress will be tracked, by the end of the year.
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Government Response
Acknowledged
HM Government
Acknowledged
Making Britain a clean energy superpower is one of the five defining missions of the Government, and as part of that we are aiming for Clean Power by 2030, one of two pillars of the Mission, the second being cross-sectorally accelerating to net zero. Using internal analysis and the advice we have received from NESO, by the end of the year Government expects to set out more detail on its approach to delivering Clean Power by 2030, including how progress will be tracked.