UK Power Firms Must Invest $330 Billion to Meet Climate, Energy Goals

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The UK power industry must invest at least ￡230 billion ($334 billion) in new infrastructure by 2025 to ensure security of supply and to meet the government's climate and renewable energy goals, according to consultants Ernst & Young (E&Y).A new study penned by E&Y, Securing the UK's Energy Future - Meeting the Financing Challenge, noted that the level of investment required is equivalent to doubling the value of the UK's total energy supply asset base. UK utility Centrica commissioned E&Y to update its 2008 Costing the Earth report, published last summer, which studied the cost implications for UK energy customers of meeting carbon emissions and renewable energy targets by 2020. In that report, the costs were estimated at around ￡165 billion ($235 billion).