Low-carbon policy 'less vital than low energy bills and security'

Lords seek new commission to spur on power station construction and end ‘low emissions priority that harms consumers’Ministers should establish a new energy commission to spur on construction of power stations because successive governments have failed to encourage enough fresh power capacity in the UK, according to a House of Lords report.Subsidy-backed growth in renewable energy projects, such as windfarms, has deterred the construction of new conventional power plants, the economi