Chris Huhne Keynote at RenewableUK 2011

In his keynote speech, the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Chris Huhne, heralded the leading role of renewable energy in what he described as "the Third Industrial Revolution", highlighting the sector's massive potential for job creation over the next decade. In his emphatic defence of renewables, Mr Huhne criticised what he described as "the green economy deniers...the curmudgeons and faultfinders who hold forth on the impossibility of renewables" describing them as "an unholy alliance of short-termists, armchair engineers, climate sceptics and vested interests who are selling the UK economy short". His speech was strongly applauded by hundreds of delegates who packed out the hall to full capacity to hear him.

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