Summary and Background
3.This Act establishes a legislative framework for delivering secure, affordable and low carbon energy.
4.At its core is the need to ensure that, as older power plants are taken offline, the United Kingdom remains able to generate enough energy to meet its needs even if demand increases. Doing this while also decarbonising requires significant investment in new infrastructure to be brought forward – over £100 billion – and new schemes to be integrated to ensure this investment comes forward.