Norway: Siltanews – News Desk
British workers and businesses will benefit from more investment in the UK’s clean energy future, with a new partnership signed with Norway.
On a visit to Oslo this week, Energy Secretary Ed Miliband secured a Green Industrial Partnership with Norwegian counterparts Ministers Terje Aasland and Cecilie Myrseth and met with Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre.
Miliband also met a number of energy companies to deepen bilateral relationships and make the case for clean energy investment in Britain.
Norway is a crucial ally in securing UK energy security, which in turn will deliver clean, secure and cheaper power for British families, whilst securing new clean energy manufacturing jobs through the Plan for Change.
The ambitious partnership enhances the UK and Norway’s longstanding collaboration on clean energy and is one of the key deliverables of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s and Norwegian Prime Minister Støre’s over-arching Strategic Partnership.
It focuses on key areas that support the development of renewables. These include offshore wind and grid development, collaboration on the protection of UK and Norwegian offshore infrastructure and reducing barriers to develop a North Sea hub for the cross-border storage of carbon dioxide.
This builds on the government’s aim for the North Sea to be at the heart of Britain’s clean energy future and to drive economic growth.
“Energy security is national security – and only by working with key partners like Norway can we accelerate clean power that we control, getting us off the rollercoaster of fossil fuels in these unstable times,” Miliband explained.