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UTILITY WEEK | 29TH NOVEMBER - 5TH DECEMBER 2019 | 9 Election 2019 • Invest to reduce the costs of renewable and low-carbon hydrogen production; • Deliver 7,000 new offshore and 2,000 new onshore wind turbines; • Expand energy storage and invest in grid enhancements and interconnectors; • Install solar panels on nearly two million social homes; • Enable the installation of solar panels on a further 750,000 homes through a programme of interest-free loans, grants and changes to regulations; • Create 2,000 Community Solar Hubs by installing panels in public locations like librar- ies, community centres and one stop shops; • Upgrade the energy efficiency of nearly all UK homes. • Revive the Green Investment Bank; • New statutory duty on all local authorities to produce a Zero Carbon Strategy including plans for local energy, transport and land use. Revive the Green Investment Bank; Carbon Strategy including plans land use. Enable the installation of solar panels on a further 750,000 homes through a programme of interest-free loans, grants and changes to regulations; • Create 2,000 Community Solar Hubs by installing panels in public locations like librar- ies, community centres and one stop shops; • Upgrade the energy efficiency of nearly all UK homes. UK POLL TRACKER As of 26 November 2019, source: FT 2019 Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Election called Election day 45% 40% 35% 30% 25% 20% 15% 10% 5% 0% 43% Conservative 30% Labour 15% Lib Dem 4% SNP 4% Brexit 3% Green Industry reaction overleaf ☛ GREENS • Reduce carbon emissions to net zero by 2030; • Provide nearly all of UK's energy from renewable sources to by the end of the next decade, including 70 per cent of the UK's electricity from wind; • "Transform" the planning system to support a "massive increase" in wind power and other renewable generation sources; • Work with the Crown Estate to open up more coastal waters for offshore wind and marine energy; • Ensure that long-term profits from these offshore renewable assets goes to the UK government and not energy firms; • Expand the UK's short-term energy storage capacity, including heat as hot water in cylinders; • Double the capacity of the grid; • Make all new buildings comply with the Passivhaus or an equivalent standard in order to secure planning permission; • Replace gas boilers with renewable heat from heat pumps, and solar thermal, geothermal, biomass and stored heat technologies; • Improve the energy efficiency of 1m existing homes and other buildings a year to better than the Energy Performance Certificate A rating; • Install solar panels on 1m homes. Jonathan Bartley and Sian Berry, co-leaders Jo Swinson Jeremy Corbyn