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Can many hands make light work to deliver Clean Power 2030?
21/5/2025
10 min read
Feature
The Labour Party took office in June 2025 with five missions. One was to ‘Make Britain a clean energy superpower to create jobs, cut bills and boost energy security with zero-carbon electricity by 2030, accelerating to net zero’. Janet Wood introduces the bodies – including Great British Energy, Ofgem, NESO, Mission Control – that are delivering this work.
To achieve this mission, in July 2024 Energy Secretary Ed Miliband announced Mission Control for Clean Power 2030, a new body whose task was to ‘turbocharge the government’s mission to provide Britain with cheaper and clean power by 2030’.
Mission Control is only a small part of a reorganisation of the UK’s energy governance and industry aimed at speeding up transformation, which began before the Labour government took power and will continue to play out for at least the rest of this parliament.
Another strand in speeding up delivery is the establishment of Great British Energy (GB Energy), a government-owned energy company, which will act as a developer and support projects at all stages of their life cycle from early development to successful operation. GB Energy will maintain part-ownership of operating projects.