UK: Meeting the energy challenge, 2007

Energy white paper: meeting the energy challenge

URN No: 07/1006

Energy is essential in almost every aspect of our lives and for the success of our economy. We face two long-term energy challenges:

• tackling climate change by reducing carbon dioxide emissions both within the UK and abroad; and
• ensuring secure, clean and affordable energy as we become increasingly dependent on imported fuel.

This White Paper, published on 23 May 2007, sets out the Government’s international and domestic energy strategy to respond to these changing circumstances, address the long term energy challenges we face and deliver our four energy policy goals:

• to put ourselves on a path to cutting CO2 emissions by some 60% by about 2050, with real progress by 2020;
• to maintain the reliability of energy supplies;
• to promote competitive markets in the UK and beyond;
• to ensure that every home is adequately and affordably heated.

It shows how we are implementing the measures set out in the Energy Review Report in 2006, as well as those announced since, including in the Pre-Budget Report in 2006 and the Budget in 2007.

Some of the measures in this White Paper require further public consultation. Alongside the White Paper we launched consultations on nuclear power, the Renewables Obligation and guidance on the 1965 Gas Act. If you would like to take part in the nuclear consultation, see the Future of Nuclear Power website. We will launch further consultations in the coming months. For more information on these, please see the Energy White Paper: Consultations page.

Meeting the Energy Challenge: Full version

• Meeting the energy challenge: a white paper on energy [Cm 7124] (6716KB)

Meeting the Energy Challenge: Chapters

• Energy white paper: contents, foreword and executive summary (439KB)
• Ateb yr her ynni: papur gwyn ar ynni: crynodeb gweithredol (376KB)
• Energy white paper: chapter 1 - energy and climate security: a global challenge (966KB)
• Energy white paper: chapter 2 - saving energy (664KB)
• Energy white paper: chapter 3 - heat and distributed generation (469KB)
• Energy white paper: chapter 4 - oil, gas and coal (470KB)
• Energy white paper: chapter 5 - electricity generation, networks, renewables, cleaner coal and carbon capure and storage for fossil fuels, nuclear power (1305KB)
• Energy white paper: chapter 6 - research and development, demonstration and deployment, and skills (680KB)
• Energy white paper: chapter 7 - transport (346KB)
• Energy white paper: chapter 8 - planning (366KB)
• Energy white paper: chapter 9 - devolved administrations, English regions and local authorities (149KB)
• Energy white paper: chapter 10 - impact of our measures (498KB)
• Energy white paper: chapter 11 - implementation (188KB)

Meeting the Energy Challenge: Annexes

• Energy white paper: annex a - fourth annual report on progress towards the 2003 Energy White Paper goals (499KB)
• Energy white paper: annex b - summary of updated energy and carbon emissions projections (194KB)
• Energy white paper: annex c - uk position on the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (108KB)
• Energy white paper: annex d - consultations announced in, or related to, the energy white paper: meeting the energy challenge (109KB)

Supporting Documents

• The Future of Nuclear Power: The role of nuclear power in a low carbon UK economy
  Take part in the consultation on the Future of Nuclear Power
• Renewable energy: reform of the renewables obligation (239KB)
  URN 07/636
• Impact of banding the renewables obligation: costs of electricity production (513KB)
  URN 07/948
• Reform of the renewables obligation. What is the likely impact of changes? (716KB)
  URN 07/949
• Guidance on the Gas Act 1965, under which licensed gas transporters proposing to store gas in natural porous strata onshore seek consent from the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry: a consultation (371KB)
  URN 07/942
• Review of distributed generation: report (335KB)
  URN 07/943
• Evaluation of supplier obligation policy options: report for DTI and Defra (552KB)
  URN 07/936
• Synthesis of the analysis of the energy white paper (315KB)
  URN 07/971
• Updated energy and carbon emissions projections: the energy white paper (601KB)
  URN 07/947
• The UK MARKAL energy model in the 2007 energy white paper (186KB)
  URN 07/938
  
  UKERC: Development of a new UK MARKAL & MARKAL-Macro energy systems model 
• Report on modelling the macroeconomic impacts of achieving the UK's carbon emission reduction goal (376KB)
  URN 07/937
• UK energy sector indicators 2007
  URN 07/193
• Energy market competition in the EU and G7: preliminary 2005 rankings (524KB)
  URN 06/2119
• Dynamics of GB electricity generation investment: prices, security of supply, CO2 emissions and policy options (852KB)
  URN 07/935
• An assessment of the potential measures to improve gas security of supply (869KB)
  URN 07/939
• Government response to the consultation on the effectiveness of current gas security of supply arrangements (259KB)
  URN 07/940
• Offshore natural gas storage and liquefied natural gas import facilities: Government response to public consultation (324KB)
  URN 07/941
• Review of UK oil refining capacity for Department of Trade and Industry (968KB)
  URN 07/1009
• UK biomass strategy 2007. Working paper 1: economic analysis of biomass energy (376KB)
  URN 07/950
  
  Defra: Biomass Strategy 

Weblinks To Other Supporting Documents:

• Consultation on Sustainable Products Policy Brief, Energy in Use: Consumer Electronics 
• Defra: Consultation on Carbon Emissions Reduction Target 
• Department for Transport: Low Carbon Transport Innovation Strategy (LCTIS) 
  

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