Extract from Welsh Assembly debate on the Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee annual report: 'The Welsh Government's progress on climate change mitigation'
Thursday, 27 September 2018 07:11
Mike Hedges AM:..The 3 per cent annual target's been met. A
point that Nick Ramsay raised I think is a really important one
that, if we just use electricity that we generate from
gas generators, all we are going to do is use up more
emissions but not to the point at which you're charging your
car. What we need, if we're going to have electric vehicles,
is renewable electricity to do it. Otherwise, we are going to
be not only no better off but probably worse off because...Request free trial
AM:..The 3 per cent
annual target's been met. A point that raised I think is a really
important one that, if we just use electricity that we generate
from gas generators, all we are going to do is use up more
emissions but not to the point at which you're charging your
car. What we need, if we're going to have electric vehicles,
is renewable electricity to do it. Otherwise, we are going to
be not only no better off but probably worse off because cars are
probably more efficient—in fact, cars are more efficient at using
petrol than power stations are at using gas to generate electricity
and then moving that electricity across the grid. So, I think it is
important that we realise that it's in the simple things—. 'Oh yes,
we'll have electric cars, we'll have all these
gas generators and everything will be wonderful', but it
won't...
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