A new report has claimed that the UK has missed out on thousands of jobs because Westminster failed to develop a home-grown supply chain before handing huge subsidies to green energy firms.
Norman Smith – a former civil servant who was central in the development of the North Sea oil industry – says efforts to increase the UK share of work on offshore wind projects may now be “too little, too late”.
In a report for Civitas, he argues that if concerted action had been taken a decade ago “the multibillion-pound-a-year offshore wind business could have been carved up entirely between British firms”.
Instead, ministers have been left trying to entice “foreign manufacturers to establish satellite plants here”.
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