UK's push for clean power is 'about security'

ENERGY Secretary Ed Miliband has told global energy ministers and company bosses that the UK’s clean power push is about security as much as fighting climate change.

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Speaking at a global energy security summit in London, he also read out a message from King Charles which said green energy would make countries’ power systems “more resilient and secure”.

Mr Miliband told delegates: “As long as energy can be weaponised against us, our countries and our citizens are vulnerable and exposed.”

“Our vision of low carbon power goes well beyond the climate imperative,” he said. “Ours is a hard-headed approach to the role of low carbon power as a route to energy security.”

He added: “Low carbon energy can play a critical role in delivering energy security for many countries around the world, and it presents a solution to the issue of energy security that simply wasn’t true a decade-and-a-half ago.”

Mr Miliband was speaking at the two-day summit in London co-hosted by the Government and the International Energy Agency.