A Labour government would spend £8bn co-investing with private companies in green projects ranging from battery factories to wind farms, shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves will announce on Monday.
Starmer claimed that hitting the clean energy target would save British households £93bn over the rest of the decade — given the sky-high wholesale price of gas.
Decarbonising the electricity system, however, is only one part of reaching the government’s existing “Net Zero 2050” target, which also requires shifting transport and heating systems from gas to electricity.
Under the Tory-Liberal Democrat coalition, the then prime minister David Cameron authorised a new industrial strategy, only to drop it after the 2015 election.
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