By Tone Langengen

The biggest question facing ministers on energy is no longer whether Britain should build clean power. It’s whether families can afford the bills that come with that approach.

The country is dealing with two crises at once: a climate crisis and a cost-of-living crisis. Serious energy policy has to recognise both. You cannot ask families to accept permanently higher bills and hope public support for net zero will simply hold.

At the Tony Blair Institute, we strongly support clean power and the goal of net zero. But if it is going to last - politically and economically - it must be delivered as cheaply as possible. Cutting energy bills is not a “nice to have”. It is the condition for economic success.

That means the focus of energy policy must shift from building more clean power at any cost to delivering cheaper power for households.

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