Energy Transition Outlook 2019

An Energy White Paper, which is expected in early 2020, provides an opportunity to move forward with a more detailed outline including legislative proposals. These need to give a framework and incentive structure so that new low-carbon technologies can come to the fore, and to help unlock the required large-scale capital investment to be delivered for achieving net-zero heat and transport whilst recognising the ongoing need for gaseous and liquid fuels for a number of applications. Policy to support decarbonised gas is particularly important as, although electrification of transport and heat will increase in importance, it is also necessary to give households and business appropriate options to choose between low- carbon technologies for their individual circumstances rather than trying to impose one-dimensional solutions. In light of the net-zero commitment, the following policy initiatives are what we believe are needed to increase the pace of change and through which government, industry and society at large can work more closely together to deliver the energy transition in the years to come.

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