UK making progress but ‘falling short’ of Net Zero

  • Gas
  • February 6, 2025

The UK’s energy transition will deliver a cleaner and less expensive energy system but oil and gas will dominate across the next decade leading to Net Zero targets being missed by 2050, according to DNV’s 2025 UK Energy Transition Outlook (ETO) .

The independent energy and assurance provider assessed the UK’s trajectory against key government targets: Clean Power 2030, 2035 Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) and Net Zero by 2050.

The short-term Clean Power 2030 target sets an ambition to decarbonise the electricity system by decade’s end, but DNV forecasts that unabated gas will still generate 12% of UK electricity in 2030 with full decarbonisation not expected until 2035.

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