Hello from London, where energy policy is a flashpoint in the UK’s general election campaign. Manifestos are being published this week ahead of the vote on July 4. The Conservative party plans to continue issuing licences for oil and gas drilling in the North Sea, and work towards decarbonising the electricity grid by 2035.
Yet the roughly $770bn to be spent on renewable power this year is only 5 per cent higher than in 2023, markedly down from the 22 per cent increase a year before. Tim Gould, IEA chief energy economist, said this was partly explained by falling costs for solar panels and batteries, boosted by manufacturing capacity in China and elsewhere.
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