The Green Industrial Partnership has been announced to drive innovation in clean energy, economic growth, and job creation

The UK-Norway green partnership has clean energy projects at its heart, building on things such as the UK’s first carbon capture contracts.

The two countries are already collaborating on projects for green energy, such as the Green Volt Floating Offshore Windfarm off the coast of Scotland, also Europe’s first major commercial floating windfarm.

The partnership comes as the UK invests in several global partnerships and co-operations.

The UK-Norway green partnership commits to clean energy

The partnership will have a significant focus on development in the North Sea, with carbon capture, storage, and transport under the London Protocol topping the list.

In the UK, the green transition is being heavily pushed with achievements including lifting the onshore wind energy ban, establishing Great British Energy, record-breaking contracts for renewables being awarded, and being a leader in ending coal-power electricity generation.

Norway’s Statkraft has likewise begun work on the Swansea Greener Grid Park, investing £70m to help stabilise the UK’s power grid with low-carbon tech. Statkraft has invested £1.4bn into the UK’s renewable energy infrastructure so far.

The UK’s BP and Norway’s Equinor are also both playing major roles in the Northern Endurance Partnership, and the Net Zero Teesside, both creating thousands of skilled jobs and providing energy for millions of homes from 2028 onwards.

Norway is one the UK’s most well-established energy partners, being the biggest supplier for gas, and will sign the new agreement with the UK to invest in clean energy this spring.

“A new era of clean energy”

The UK’s prime minister, Keir Starmer, said: “This Green Industrial Partnership will allow us to seize the opportunities from a new era of clean energy, driving investment into the UK and boosting jobs both now and in the future.

“It will harness the UK’s unique potential to become a world-leader in carbon capture – from the North Sea to the coastal south – reigniting industrial heartlands and delivering on our Plan for Change.

“Our partnership with Norway will make the UK more energy secure, ensuring we are never again exposed to international energy price spikes and the whims of dictators like Putin.”

Norway’s prime minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, said: “We need cooperation, knowledge and innovation to better equip us to face the future. The partnership with the UK will be important to facilitate more green jobs both in Norway and the UK, and for advancing the green transition.

“We work closely with the UK in a wide range of areas. We have cooperated in the field of carbon capture and storage for more than 20 years, and further strengthening our cooperation with the UK will help us to cut emissions and create green jobs.

“It is important to show our partners what Norway can bring to the table in our joint efforts to achieve our common goals.”

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