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hen it comes to a greener future, creating it now is exactly what UK


manufacturers and service industries are bent on doing, helped by members of a government who, after a stuttering start, are now starting to put their money where their mouths have been. Take, for example, this summer’s


decision by Tata Motors – the owners of Jaguar Land Rover – to plough more than £4 billion into building an electric car battery ‘gigafactory’ in Britain, rather than in Spain. The plant, to be built in Somerset and expected to create 4,000 jobs and thousands more in the supply chain, is predicted to be capable of meeting half of the UK’s electric vehicle needs by 2030. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak


described Tata’s decision as “testament to the strength of our car manufacturing industry and its skilled workers”. What he did not mention was the reported half-a-billion pounds of funding that was to come


from the government. Another milestone in the UK’s


ambition of becoming a ‘net zero’ nation within the next 27 years was the installation in August of the first turbines at what is destined to become the world’s largest offshore wind farm. The Dogger Bank wind farm in the North Sea, 80 miles off the Yorkshire Coast, will boast a total of 277 turbines, each 260 metres high, when it is pumping out enough electricity to supply six million homes in three years’ time. Such is the green potential of wind farms that, last month, the government increased by £22 million the subsidy fund to support new renewable energy projects, taking the total budget to £227 million. Similarly, the government gave the


green light over summer to millions of pounds of funding for two new carbon capture projects – the Acorn Project at St Fergus gas terminal in Aberdeenshire and the Viking Cluster in Immingham on the River Humber, near Grimsby – which are regarded as vital if net zero is to be achieved.


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