According to the Conservative Party website the Conservative Party will try to achieve the following if they gain power at the 2010 general election:
With our energy supplies increasingly sourced overseas, and with urgent action needed to combat climate change, it’s time to rethink the way we supply and consume energy in Britain. We urgently need to move to a low carbon economy in order to strengthen our economy, help guarantee our energy security and protect our environment for future generations.
Britain is uniquely placed to be the world’s first low carbon economy: we have the natural resources to generate wind and wave power, a skilled workforce trained in the energy industry, a high-tech manufacturing sector and a green financial centre in the City of London.
A Conservative Government will make developing renewable and low carbon energy sources a priority. We will:
* Transform electricity networks with ‘smart grid’ and ‘smart meter’ technology that automatically matches supply and demand, allowing a huge increase in renewable power
* Provide up to £6,500 worth of home insulation improvements, enabling households to reduce their gas and electricity bills
* Create a decentralised energy revolution by introducing a system of feed-in tariffs to encourage micro-generation of electricity
* Expand offshore wind and marine power and provide government backing for a network of large-scale Marine Energy Parks
While ensuring Britain has adequate, safe and reliable access to conventional fuels, we will only permit coal-fired power stations to be built with clean carbon capture and storage technology, restricting carbon emissions to the level achieved by a modern gas power plant.
Nuclear power will be part of the energy mix if it is economically viable, but new nuclear power stations should not leave taxpayers with liabilities for their running, decommissioning or waste. Nuclear is not an alternative to developing and expanding renewable forms of energy.
REDUCING FUEL BILLS
The rising cost of energy is pushing more and more families into fuel poverty. So we will help cut people’s fuel bills by:
* Making it illegal for energy companies to charge unfair price premiums on prepayment meters, reducing bills for 5.8 million households
* Requiring every energy company to offer social tariffs (special low rates for electricity and gas) to vulnerable households
* Demanding energy companies inform customers if they are on the company’s cheapest tariff, and how much they could save if they are not
* Reforming the Post Office Card Account (POCA) to give up to 4 million people access to lower energy and water tariffs
Conservative Party Climate Change and Energy Policy :http://www.conservatives.com/Policy/Where_we_stand/Energy.aspx
I would be interested to hear both positive and negative views on Conservative’s Climate Change and Energy policies in the comments below?
its used as an excuse to tax us more!
If you want to save energy STOP targeting the people first!!!
You want an easy solution to the energy problem??? i give you my best shot here.
Turn the street light on 5 minutes later and turn them off 5 mins earlier.Do that all around the country.Massive savings none gets a bad deal.
SIMPLZ;D
I’m pleasantly surprised at the positive nature of the Conservative Climate Change and Energy Policy (it accepts Labours achievements). Some of the Conservative policy documents are more about knocking what Labours done wrong/not done rather than what the Conservatives plan to do in power.
I think Labours done well in this area and it’s good to see both Labour and the Conservatives with similar goals. Which ever party forms government lets hope they continue to strive for a greener Britain.
David
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Who is classed as ‘vulnerable’ the non workers who dont want to make an attempt to or the hard workers who struggle through life. We must pay for this somewhere.
How many taxis are in this country driving most of the day. My suggestion to help save the dying planet, make all new taxis at least hybrid/low emission.
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How can you seriously expect to win over Green voters by even considering that Nuclear power is a consideration if economically viable. For a moment I was beginning to think you were actully looking like THE votable party but in all these threads your not coming up with any new ideas like encouraging sustainability and a cast iron guarantee that you would switch to biofuels by a certain date.It’s all lets copy what Labour has done and re-spin it. This is why Tory party is missing out and why you have your work cut-out to convince middle england you will deliver over a term and not just say you will.
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