Clegg backs green energy and Green Deal

utility week - 21st September 2011

Liberal Democrat leader and deputy prime minister Nick Clegg voiced strong support for green energy and electricity market reform in his conference speech today.

He told delegates at the partys annual conference in Birmingham: "we have stood by our commitments to act on the environment."

Clegg added that while the "politically convenient thing would have been to put off to another day" the party was taking immediate action and reeled off a list of examples.

These included "ambitious carbon targets. Energy market reform. Councils generating renewable energy. A Green Deal to make bills lower and homes warmer. Carbon capture and storage. Green buses, trains and trams. The worlds first ever green investment bank".

Clegg claimed these were "green achievements from a green part of the government".