Energy powers the economy, and one of DECC’s key responsibilities is to ensure the UK continues to enjoy secure, competitively priced energy. We are importing more of our energy, and competition for energy resources can make prices volatile, as the spike in oil prices in the summer of 2008 demonstrated.
At the same time, to tackle climate change and meet our own emissions targets, we need to accelerate the move to a low-carbon energy supply.
In these pages, you can read about low carbon energy in more detail, including renewables, nuclear power stations and Carbon Capture and Storage technology.
You can also read about innovative emerging technologies such as fuel cells and wave energy, heat as well as electricity, and small solutions (photovoltaic cells on the roof of your house, for example) as well as large ones.