Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Ed Miliband, made a statement about the Government’s long-term plans for reducing the UK’s carbon emissions.

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Some snippets of interest:
-Providing £500,000 each to 15 areas of the country for people to to trial the newest technologies and be beacons for how other communities can cut their carbon emissions.
-From April 2010, individuals and communities will be able for the first time to generate their own renewable power and sell it back to the grid, with guaranteed feed-in tariffs
-support the growth of a world-leading offshore wind industry in Britain
-Changing Office of the Gas and Electricity Markets’ principal objective so that for the first time, reducing carbon emissions,