Chris Huhne's Climate statement to the Commons

Interesting reading over the DECC climate statement delivered by Huhne to the Commons on Tuesday.

Good to see some of the Climate Secretary's comments in the Sunday Telegraph on the importance of rolling-out wind farm development fleshed out to include a few more specifics.

(Although, in essence, the document is another coalition policy programme broad in scope but very thin on specifics).

Nonetheless, some useful clues of what we can expect from the reports '32 actions'.

Click on the links below to view the DECC's accompanying press release and the annual climate statement document itself

Media launch: http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/news/pn10_85/pn10_85.aspx

Annual climate statement:

http://www.decc.gov.uk/media/viewfile.ashx?filetype=4&filepath=what%20we%20do/uk%20energy%20supply/237-annual-energy-statement-2010.pdf

New Conservative Wind Proposals Welcomed

Curtin&Co are pleased to see that Conservative thinking on wind farms has moved positively towards embracing the need for this renewable source.

Greg Clark, the Tories spokesman on the issue of renewable energy, revealed in a speech last week at Oxford University that the old policy of being instinctively averse to the thought of on-shore wind farms has been reversed. This is a very welcome development and shows that all major political parties have recognised the very real need to diversify the energy production in the country.

With the almost inevitable delay in getting the next generation of nuclear power stations up and running we may come to rely on wind energy far more than we currently believe.