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Lisa Nandy, shadow secretary of state for energy and climate change, has denounced the Conservative government for their handling of the Hinkley power station project.

In her speech at the Labour party conference Nandy said deals with overseas countries, negotiated by the Conservatives, will leave the UK 鈥減aying over the odds, for decades, to subsidise Chinese and French companies for a nuclear power station on course to be the most expensive ever built anywhere in the world鈥�.

She also accused the Conservative Party of creating an 鈥渆nergy security crisis,鈥� turning their backs on wind and solar and creating 鈥渟ky-high鈥� energy bills for the British public.

A plan was also outlined by Nandy - who said she and Jeremy Corbyn want to 鈥渄emocratise鈥� energy in the UK, not 鈥渘ationalise鈥� it - for 鈥渃ommunity-based energy companies and cooperatives鈥� with every community owning its own clean energy power station.

Labour local governments in Nottingham, Oldham and Cardiff are, she said, already leading the way and the Labour energy team are determined to work with other towns and cities to follow in their lead and 鈥減ush for a clean energy boom鈥�.

This could create a new 鈥減owerhouse,鈥� according to Nandy, and lead to a more secure energy future for the country. However, she admitted that the transition to clean energy was a huge challenge 鈥渃omparable in scale to the industrial revolution鈥�.