100% Clean Energy by 2050 Pledge

The people who live in the cities, towns and villages we serve deserve warm homes, secure and affordable energy, to breathe clean air, drink clean water and live in a place  that they can be proud of.

This will help us ensure we keep the lights on, generate our own power for our nation, protect consumers from high and unstable energy prices and end our dependence on imported fuel from states we would rather not rely on.

The future we face requires ambition and imagination so that our children can have a safe and secure future, so we will take action that tackles climate change but also builds communities which are the best places for our children to grow up.

We have a crisis: we have a responsibility to deal with it.

We are uniquely placed to contribute to the solutions we need, because of our industrial past and we have demonstrated throughout our history that we are able and willing to lead on finding solutions to the new challenges the world faces.

We have the ambition of making all our cities, towns and villages across the UK 100% clean before 2050, in line with the commitments made nationally and internationally at the Paris Summit.

We hope other places across the globe will join us to demonstrate that this transition will happen through acts of leadership, and that a transition to a clean energy future is both viable and already beginning to happen today. We are committed to making a better future for all.