Ed Miliband has been challenged to reveal the cost of his green policies after he vowed to fight the nimbys to generate more renewable power.
The Energy Secretary says he will take on the blockers, the delayers, the obstructionists to reach the net-zero target by the end of the decade.
His remarks have raised fears that communities will have energy pylons and wind farms inflicted on them as well as soaring bills to pay for them.
Conservative energy spokesman Claire Coutinho said: Ed Milibands rush to net-zero for the sake of ideology will leave us in the worst of all worlds – with higher bills, jobs sent abroad and ever more reliance on China.
He must set out a full systems costs immediately so that British billpayers know how much all of this will cost them.
Ed Miliband (pictured) has been challenged to reveal the cost of his green policies after he vowed to fight the nimbys to generate more renewable power
His remarks have raised fears that communities will have energy pylons and wind farms inflicted on them as well as soaring bills to pay for them (stock)
At Energy UKs conference in London yesterday, Mr Miliband vowed to end the UKs reliance on fossil fuels by building more green energy infrastructure.
The faster we go, the more secure we become, he said. Every wind turbine we put up, every solar panel we install, every piece of grid we construct helps to protect families from future energy shocks.
This is an argument we need to have as a country because the converse is also true. Every wind turbine we block, every solar farm we reject, every piece of grid we fail to build makes us less secure and more exposed.
Conservative energy spokesman Claire Coutinho (pictured) said: Ed Milibands rush to net-zero for the sake of ideology will leave us in the worst of all worlds – with higher bills, jobs sent abroad and ever more reliance on China.
The Energy Secretary says he will take on the blockers, the delayers, the obstructionists to reach the net-zero target by the end of the decade
Mr Miliband did not repeat Labours vote-winning election pledge to save families £300 a year on their heating bills.
He made no mention of the figure that he, Sir Keir Starmer and others used during the election campaign about the benefits of Labours GB Energy project.
Following the election, Labour reversed the decade-long ban on onshore windfarms, approved four of the UKs largest solar farms and set up green power company GB Energy, with£8billion of funding.
Mr Milibands plans have raised concerns that the growing number of onshore energy projects will require a huge increase in pylons and overhead lines to connect them to the grid.