Recommendation 13

On 7 February 2023, the government announced that the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) would close, and its responsibilities would transfer to new departments, including the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero (the Department).39 The Department therefore takes the lead for energy security and net zero, and is responsible for achieving the government’s decarbonised power sector ambition.40 It believes that the machinery of government changes that led to its creation provide it with the focus and bandwidth it needs to lead decarbonising the power sector, both now and to scale-up activity in future.41 Nevertheless, it must rely on and successfully influence other government departments and organisations to help it to achieve its power sector decarbonisation ambitions, when it has limited levers to do so.42