{"id":135950,"date":"2025-09-14T03:21:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T03:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/135950\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T03:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T03:21:17","slug":"keir-starmers-solar-and-wind-power-ambitions-face-mounting-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/135950\/","title":{"rendered":"Keir Starmer&#8217;s Solar and Wind Power Ambitions Face Mounting Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">It\u2019s an ambitious project by any measure: 70 million solar panels, 6,000  wind turbines, and 4,500 kilometers of underwater electricity cables.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">All told, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer\u2019s plan to deliver a carbon-free power grid by the end of this decade will require about \u00a3240 billion ($325 billion) of investment, thousands more skilled specialists, and a complete overhaul of the planning system. The policy is a crucial part of the Labour government\u2019s push to revive economic growth, and has made the UK a flagbearer for green ambitions (and a lightning rod for President Donald Trump\u2019s ire) at a time when many authorities and corporates around the world are loudly pulling back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s an ambitious project by any measure: 70 million solar panels, 6,000 wind turbines, and 4,500 kilometers of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[84,2339,62,12622,8731,1397,59040,63493,63492,80,5149,2346,229,12636,90,56,54,55,37706],"class_list":["post-135950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-business","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-economic-growth","tag-energy-policy","tag-energy-security","tag-environment","tag-fossil-fuel","tag-future-of-british-business","tag-gas-prices","tag-government","tag-green","tag-industries","tag-politics","tag-renewable-energy","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wind-turbines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}