Emma Pinchbeck
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Emma Pinchbeck is the CEO of Energy UK, advocating for ambitious climate policies and effective energy solutions. This interview reveals her commitment to creating a sustainable energy future through informed policy-making and investment in renewable technologies.
“Big underlying driver always for us is can you make the alternative cheaper for people and more attractive so that the market can just do it? And the biggest barrier to the uptake of electric vehicles and heat pumps in the UK is that our electricity price is high and some of that is down to government policy choices.”
“It but energy sits underneath a lot of the debate on climate change and changing the energy system. So, yeah, it is true. And I suppose the other thing to know about that is. Is often this positioning at the moment of building energy infrastructure as opposed to the kind of desire to protect the natural environment.”
“That is right in terms of current government progress, as well as advising the head of time. The homework marking bits that every year we publish an annual report and every two years on the climate risk piece about government progress. And we give that to parliaments so they can hold government to account critically in the UK.”
“Should be cheaper, the efficiencies of them, and can't use low cost electricity. What it also does politically is make people think that electricity must be more expensive than it is.”
The Rest Is Politics: Leading — 142. The Truth About Net Zero's Credibility (Emma Pinchbeck)
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