A future Labour government in the UK would aim to increase installed offshore wind capacity sevenfold by 2030 to help meet the party’s 60% renewable energy target by that date.
Shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey (pictured) said, in an interview with the UK Guardian newspaper, that offshore growth was one of several initial findings by a team of experts from industry and academia brought together by the party to come up with a plan to meet the clean power goal.
Labour views the challenge of climate change as an opportunity to bring skilled jobs and economic regeneration to disadvantaged communities in the UK, Long-Bailey said in the interview.
She added that Labour needed to be even more ambitious on its climate and low-carbon goals, including targets for industry sectors other than energy, such steel, chemicals and agriculture.
The experts advising Labour also suggested that the country’s solar capacity should be tripled, the article said.