The UK’s Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Kwasi Kwarteng, and Norway’s Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Tina Bru, issued a joint statement during Kwarteng's visit to Oslo for their first in-person meeting.

The UK currently has around 14GW of installed solar capacity, and is on track to double that total by 2030 under existing market conditions.

It is essential that the roles for nuclear energy are set out and assessed clearly, with the acknowledgement that they will not be adopted unless they are part of an optimised solution. It is also essential that similarly objective assessment mechanisms are applied to all decarbonisation options.

The £10bn (€11.6bn) project, comprising 200 floating wind turbines, would supply power to offshore oil and gas facilities

The new system, known as a ‘Super-X divertor’, would allow components in future commercial tokamaks to last for much longer; greatly increasing the power plant’s availability, improving its economic viability and reducing the cost of fusion electricity.

In the UK today, nuclear energy generates roughly 20% of the country’s electricity, but almost half of current capacity is to be retired by 2025.

UK strategy would take a "twin-track approach", she said. "It would not be blue or green, but both. Blue gives us volume as well as investment."

The first two offshore wind projects would be developed off the southern and eastern coasts of Iceland and would be commissioned in early 2025, to offset the decommissioning of the last coal-fired power plants in the United Kingdom.

"We are investing in the UK’s most important asset - our workforce - to ensure that our people have the right skills to deliver the low-carbon transition and thrive in the high-value jobs this will create.

The new emissions trading system (ETS), that will charge power plants and industrial plants for each tonne of CO2 emitted through ICE, will replace the EU ETS that the United Kingdom left at the end of the Brexit transition period in December 2020.