David Cameron has been urged to intervene in a rapidly escalating row between the chancellor and the energy secretary that threatens to derail planned reforms to the UK’s energy sector.
George Osborne has demanded that the Liberal Democrats accept a watering down of green targets as the price for sparing the onshore wind industry from swingeing subsidy cuts.
But the concession that the chancellor is offering is worth only a few million pounds a year to one part of the renewable energy industry, while his attempts to scrap key green goals could jeopardise tens of billions in investment and the creation of thousands of new green jobs, green businesses and campaigners have warned.
