Britain's renewable energy approvals surge but grid bottlenecks slow cheap power delivery
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Alex Clark, Prina Shah, Pablo Gutiérrez, Ashley Kirk, Jillian Ambrose, Krystina Shveda, Tom Calverley
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The article examines the gap between Britain's Labour government approving renewable energy projects at a rapid pace and the slow progress of actually turning those approvals into operational, cheap energy. Despite approving renewables at double the rate of the previous Conservative government, the UK faces structural bottlenecks in grid connections, planning permissions, and infrastructure build-out that prevent the green revolution from translating into lower energy bills for consumers. The piece uses data analysis to highlight the disconnect between political ambition and on-the-ground reality.
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bskyBritain's renewable energy approvals surge but grid bottlenecks slow cheap power deliverytheguardian.comKey quotes
· 4 pulledLabour has a race on its hands if it is to lock in its promise to achieve a virtually zero-carbon electricity system by 2030.
Britain's next prime minister will have to move fast: the climate emergency is raging, high energy bills are driving up the cost of living and the reactionary right is threatening a fossil fuel push if it wins power.
In the party's first two years in office it approved new renewable energy projects at double the rate the Conservatives did in their last two years, a Guardian data analysis found.
So what's stopping this turning into cheap power? Let's take a deep dive.
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