The UK aims to build new gas-fired power stations to boost energy security – though in a departure to the energy zeitgeist, they will be unabated and won’t capture carbon.
Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the UK needs gas generation in the immediate term to meet rising demand.
“Ultimately we will meet this demand with renewables and with new, cleaner gas technologies to abate emissions … in the short term, we will need more unabated gas power capacity.”
He said it will extend the life of the country’s existing gas facilities where it is practical to do so, and build new capacity to replace plants that will need to be retired, to keep the lights on when ‘the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing’. The UK currently has 32 gas-fired power stations.
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