Cornwall’s Clean Power Mission

It was fantastic to welcome Industry Minister Sarah Jones to Cornwall to show her the amazing work already done, and opportunities for growth, in the two areas under her responsibility: Cornwall's historic mining sector and our ports and renewable energy. 

Cornwall is critical to the Government's Clean Power Mission, and as a Cornwall MP, I am determined to keep pushing so that people who live and work here will benefit from it.

Minister Jones visited Falmouth Harbour to hear about A&P’s ambitious plans to expand the port as part of Cornwall’s strategy to lead the way in renewable energy, particularly through floating offshore wind in the Celtic Sea - bringing new jobs and opportunities to our region.

She also opened the port of Falmouth's new shoreside energy provision. A&P won a Zero Emission Vessel and Infrastructure fund (ZEVI) grant of £6.3 million which they matched, for an industrial research project to design, build and test a way of providing clean energy on the shoreside at the Port of Falmouth. You can now plug in a ship at Falmouth Docks, cutting emissions and noise by removing the need to use its generator in port.