A blast from the past: this is what the 2003 energy white paper thought 2020 might look like.

Much is recognisable. Much is strange. For example, coal was seen as part of the future. There were even plans to extend the pits.

3 million households were living in fuel poverty in 2003. There were ambitious plans to reduce this to zero in England by 2010.

How many households in Great Britain are still living in fuel poverty today? About 3 million, according to BEIS stats.

New Labour invented the Green Deal (I'll leave it to you to decide if that merits applause or derision). And policymakers were already pondering whether we should be selling outcomes, not units.

Whatever happened to Renewables UK? Did it become Renewable UK?

In 2003, the government targeted 20% of UK power generation being renewable by 2020. In 2019, we hit 37%.

There was an "urgent" need to launch a CCS with Enhanced Oil Recovery demo project. I wonder how that CCS demo is going? It must have reported years ago.

The energy watchdog, currently Citizens Advice, is paid for through a flat levy. But the government appeared to be considering a polluter pays type model where suppliers paid more if they generated more complaints.

I'd imagine that idea was abandoned because its budget is so small - they're terribly good value dontcha know - that it wouldn't be worthwhile. The charges wouldn't be large enough to create a meaningful incentive.