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But Stark, Miliband’s pick to head his department’s efforts to replace nearly all fossil fuels in the U.K. energy system with solar, wind and other clean power by 2030, said that green transition would still involve deals with Beijing.<\/p>\n
\u201cChina will be present in the future energy system. Chinese tech will be present in the future energy system,\u201d he said. \u201cThe question for us is the degree to which we want to see that happen, and where we want to see that happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
He pointed to Chinese battery storage technology and solar panels as investment opportunities, \u201cwith the right conditions attached to them, so we don\u2019t have slave labor [brought] to this country.”<\/p>\n
Batteries represent a technology where the U.K. \u201cmight actually want to invite the Chinese investment into this economy, because it is the best tech and chemistry in the world,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The government announced its decision in March to reject, on security grounds, Ming Yang’s proposed factory for building turbines.<\/p>\n
On the same day, the government backed a different wind turbine factory proposed by European supplier Vestas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n