Renewables for energy security

Anika Patel, outlining key takeaways from Chatham House’s climate and energy summit for Carbon Brief:

A key benefit of the UK’s “climate leadership”, [Rachel] Kyte argued, is that the energy transition will “make British people more secure”.

[Ben] Parsons said the argument – recently deployed by Conservative leader Badenoch – that the energy transition replaced reliance on Russian fossil fuels with reliance on Chinese technology was incorrect.

“Fossil fuels are fuel – they require constant replenishment. Renewables are infrastructure,” he said, adding that arguably the UK should be accelerating its deployment of clean-energy technology.

When you hear people arguing for fossil fuel in the name of “energy security”, please interrupt and correct them.