Labour has pledged to save households hundreds of pounds on their energy bills as part of their plans to 'harness clean power'.

Sir Keir Starmer's party has put clean energy as one of its central missions for government, in a bid to end high energy bills "for good".

A move to clean energy will "generate growth, tackle the cost-of-living crisis and make Britain energy independent once again", according to the party's election manifesto. Labour has set itself a target of doubling onshore wind, tripling solar power, and quadrupling offshore wind by 2030.

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Sir Keir's government plans to set up a state-owned energy investment company called Great British Energy, which will have its headquarters in Scotland. The company, which will be funded with a £8.3 billion investment, will "create jobs and build supply chains in every corner of the UK", according to Labour.

On energy bills, Labour has said it will work with Ofgem to reduce standing charges, which it said make up "too much of the burden of the bill".

In addition, the Warm Homes Plan to improve energy efficiency will reduce bills for millions of households, Labour said. "Labour will invest an extra £6.6 billion over the next parliament, doubling the existing planned government investment, to upgrade five million homes to cut bills for families," the manifesto states.

The scheme will offer grants and low-interest loans so households can upgrade insulation, install solar panels, batteries and low carbon heating options to cut bills. The party also said it would "ensure homes in the private rented sector meet minimum energy efficiency standards by 2030", which will save renters money on their bills too. "Nobody will be forced to rip out their boiler as a result of our plans," the manifesto adds.

Labour also said it will not issue any new licences for new oil and gas fields "because they will not take a penny off bills, cannot make us energy secure, and will only accelerate the worsening climate crisis". There will also be no new coal licences and the party plans to "ban fracking for good".

The new prime minister is expected to lay our further details of his green energy plans during the State Opening of Parliament next week, which is set to take place on Wednesday, July 17.

Former Labour leader Ed Miliband has been appointed energy security and net zero secretary in Sir Keir's Cabinet. Mr Miliband will be seeking to re-establish the UK’s global leadership role on climate change, which reached a peak under Boris Johnson, when Glasgow hosted the UN climate Cop26 talks, but which declined under prime ministers Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak.

Following Labour's election victory, Greenpeace UK’s co-executive director, Areeba Hamid, said: "This landslide victory has buried Sunak’s divisive anti-green agenda once and for all and is a powerful call for change. Voters have resoundingly rejected his climate rollbacks and elected a party with a proper plan to turbocharge cheap, clean, renewable energy, promising to slash emissions, lower bills and deliver hundreds of thousands of new green jobs."