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Government unveils plans for a low-carbon electricity grid by 2030
But Unite warns that Labour has ‘missed a golden opportunity to bring the national grid under public ownership’
A child rides a bike at Whitelee Windfarm in East Renfrewshire, July 2015

THE government announced plans for a new era of “clean energy” today.

Labour has pledged to create a 95 per cent low-carbon electricity grid by the end of the decade. 

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband described the transition as the “social justice fight of our time” and that it aimed to shield working people from the “ravages of global energy markets.”

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