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LONDON -(Dow Jones)- The U.K. Department of Energy and Climate Change is to set out a broad strategy in July on ensuring energy diversity as the country shifts to low carbon technologies, a spokesman said Tuesday.
However, the government won’t be specifying targets for different sources of power generation in the future energy mix, the spokesman said.
“We don’t intend to predict or mandate precise shares for the mix. The aim is to ensure diversity and a shift towards low carbon technologies,” the spokesman said.
He denied a report Monday in U.K. newspaper The Times, citing Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband as saying the government would this summer give targets for nuclear, gas, clean coal and renewables in the future energy mix.
“What the secretary of state said very clearly is that we can’t leave climate and energy security to the market alone, that the state needs to take a strategic role, putting in place a clear pathway to ensure diversity and low carbon and what that will be required of the energy system in the coming decades,” the spokesman said.
The U.K. is pushing for a fleet of new nuclear power stations to replace aging reactors. It also has a European Union target to source 20% of its energy needs from renewables by 2020 as part of a goal to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
The U.K. government also wants carbon capture and storage fitted to at least a quarter of the capacity of any new coal-fired power stations and a full-scale retrofit of CCS on all U.K. coal plants within five years of the technology being proven.
-By Selina Williams, Dow Jones Newswires +44 207 842 9262; [email protected]
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