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Connecting the future: the UK’s renewable energy strategy Foreword volunteers. It is time to regulate minimum standards and force manufacturers and builders to only design and produce smarter products, buildings and vehicles that use energy more effectively. We should also be looking closer to home, following Germany’s lead and using our own UK based companies for manufacturing the parts and technologies that we need to meet our targets. Nurturing our domestic industry would mean we could get parts more quickly, more easily and with more benefit to the UK economy. Then, like Germany, we could export our industry expertise. Right now, the first commercial wave farm is being assembled near Porto in Portugal, using wave power technology developed in Scotland. This technology could have been deployed in the UK market if there had been the proper support mechanisms in place. The UK has the best renewable energy resources in the European Union yet we are near the bottom of the European league table when it comes to exploiting it. In 2007 Spain installed eight times more wind capacity than the UK, Germany four times and France double. The government’s renewable energy strategy consultation could provide a blueprint for a green energy revolution in the UK. It could slash emissions and meet the EU Renewable Energy Target. And its vision could put the UK back at the leading edge of technological and scientific innovation. But only if the government makes good on its proposals, follows through on the strategy and abandons its pursuit of new runways and coal fired power stations that will spell the end of the UK’s reputation as a world leader on climate change. “The need for a bold response from a nation that considers itself a world leader in tackling climate change has never been clearer…”
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