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Government will not decarbonise buildings by 2050 without significant skills intervention, MPs say

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Energy committee report comes as government announces plans for apprenticeship spending

The government will not meet its goal to meet Britain’s electricity demand with clean energy by 2030 or decarbonise the country’s building stock by 2050 without a “significant intervention” in the workforce, according to a House of Commons committee.

In a report published on Friday, the energy security and net zero committee said that targeting consumer demand was necessary but not sufficient and that public funding to address the skills supply would be needed.

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