Following the announcement that Grant Shapps will lead the government’s new Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Martin Fahey, Head of Sustainability at Mitsubishi Electric comments:
“We are pleased to welcome Grant Shapps into his role in the newly created Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. It’s encouraging to see the government’s focus on the goal of achieving a net zero economy, and this move should help to drive investment and business opportunities around renewable forms of energy. Critically, it will also support the goal of decarbonising our country and moving to more sustainable technologies, like heat pumps, that can be applied at the pace required to buildings in all their forms which account for such a large part of the emissions generated as a country.
“With the cost of living crisis and high energy prices an ongoing challenge, a continued move towards renewable energy will also reduce the UK’s reliance on gas and oil, and their volatile prices, and give the UK greater energy security for the future.”
