The British government will set out a route map on Wednesday showing how it plans to meet its 2020 target of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 34 percent compared to 1990 levels, Reuters cited a minister as saying today. The government will publish "The UK Low Carbon Transition Plan" and a Renewable Energy Strategy setting out how Britain plans to meet a European Union target of getting 15 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020. "What we're trying to set out on Wednesday ... is a route map, ...a sense of how do we go from here to 2020 and beyond," Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband told the BBC. News reports said the government would say its proposals could create up to 400,000 jobs in industries such as offshore wind and nuclear power. But they said the measures could also drive up household fuel bills. The plans will include "feed-in" tariffs that will allow people to sell energy from domestic solar panels and wind turbines to the national grid. "We are introducing feed-in tariffs from April 2010 in the UK so that individuals and communities can both play their part in the kind of clean energy revolution that we need," Miliband told BBC News 24.
