Labour’s main growth plan to create 600,000 jobs and help fund their spending pledges from Green energy, pursuing net zero and decarbonisation is currently fantasy. Even if the wind is blowing in the right direction we still have no viable means of storing enough of the energy for it to be secure ,reliable and affordable. Paul Nowak in the video cites Biden increasing public spending to create more jobs but the numbers have been very small compared to the amount of money spent. Also the US economy’s growth has been due to the fact they have invested in technology which have secured their own energy sources in oil and gas extraction. This has been a priority for the US ever since 9/11 to be self sufficient in energy.
Renewable energy sources are no answer at all until intermittency has been solved. It hasn't yet - and the solution may be a long time coming (because people have been looking for energy efficient storage at scale for a long time now - and not finding it).
Even nuclear reactors are not a perfect answer because of the expense of construction and the time lag between conception and function - but also because they cannot simply be turned on and off (up and down a bit, yes, drastically, no). So it is likely still to be down to fossil fuels to cover large spikes in energy usage.
No one has grasped the nettle of net zero - which implies a massive upgrade both in generation and in the grid to support it (which is simply not up to it currently). It isn't just productivity that is at stake - it's keeping the lights on as interminable net zero policies put more and more pressure on the grid.
I don't think that any policy maker has a grip on this at all. Because, if they had, they'd be panicking.
We need to continue to develop green technology and energy sources but not rush it in before it’s secure, reliable and affordable. We should phase it in alongside current oil and gas if we don’t want to shoot ourselves in the foot. I recently had to spend £20,000 to replace my perfectly good diesel car because it was not ULEZ compliant. This has wiped out all of my savings but with unsocial hours shift work, children who do sporting activities and elderly infirm parents to ferry around to hospital appointment etc there really wasn’t much choice. One thing all governments need are more scientists as MPs, advisors and SPADS because the current lack of understanding of basic science in energy creation and storage and also medicine during the Covid era is just plain embarrassing and leads to policies is at best Expensive and unworkable and at worst dangerous and harmful.