The new British Energy Security Strategy, unveiled this week, has highlighted the sheer confusion within UK policymaking. In a bid to tackle two frontiers of climate change and eliminating Russian imports, the country’s plan is paradoxical in that its pledges will not bear fruit until long-after the current crisis is over, and until we have left it too late to reach net zero emissions by 2050. This strategy must be reevaluated to place more attention on energy efficiency and onshore wind, if the UK is to have anything of an impact of the immediate crisis it faces. The strategy comes at a crucial time for the UK’s energy sector. Without Covid-19 restrictions for the first time since March 2020, the…