Labour wants green energy to power most UK homes by 2030

[Morgen]

Almost all of Britain’s homes and businesses would be powered by wind, solar and nuclear power by 2030, under bold new green energy plans being outlined by Labour.

Rebecca Long-Bailey, the shadow business secretary, will declare on Tuesday that the party is committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to zero by the middle of the century. The UK’s current goal is an 80% cut by 2050.

Such a move would put the UK ahead of the EU and signal that it intends to be a strong international climate leader post-Brexit.
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Labour is mulling a goal of providing 44% of heat from renewable sources by 2030 and reducing heat demand from buildings by almost a quarter. The party is expected to officially adopt the energy goals later this year.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/sep/24/labour-wants-green-energy-to-power-most-uk-homes-by-2030-greenhouse-gas-emissions

[Download]

Hmm, I'm surprised labour included nuclear in that. Sounds good.

[Tsuchinoko]

nuclear power is the good shit

[Morgen]

It's Labour, not the green party.

[nikomo]

It's the only way to make it sound plausible.
If we could generate energy from both wind and heavy rain, then they could skip nuclear.

[Sableye]

you know what would be a cool idea, Not Brexiting! and building better power networks with Europe to further optimize renewable power allocation.

[ペゴボド]

but why would you skip nuclear

[ASparkle]

Because unlike wind, water, and solar, nuclear power is not renewable and produces waste. It may be a lot more efficient than fossil fuels, but it's not ideal.

[ペゴボド]

Waste a decade ago is fuel now, not to mention there's a lot more years worth of uranium by orders of magnitude than coal

[nikomo]

Reuse isn't that popular yet, but we'll eventually get there.
Problem with current nuclear energy is that a lot of countries have no good locations to hold the waste as the technology gets better, a lot of the waste is just sitting in cooling pools at current power plants.

I say we should still go forward with it though.

[Morgen]

You think this parliament will last until then?

Here's the proposal in detail:

https://www.labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Achieving-6025-by-2030-final-version.pdf

[Resonant]

If we are going to go largely green, would it not be a better idea to start producing power locally for towns and cities through wind, solar and tidal and have a national grid of nuclear to pick up the slack? Each county in charge of it's own energy and maintenance for immediate demands?

It might get complicated but in the age of electronic warfare and the ever rising possibility of large scale natural disasters, it might be the safer option.