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The government is excessively reliant on wind power, a leading business organisation has claimed.
A CBI report has concluded that Labour's energy policy is "weakening" the UK's energy security.
In a study of Britain's energy supplies, the CBI argues that the government should move away from wind power and turn towards nuclear power instead.
The CBI publishes it s report ahead of a government announcement on climate change due this Wednesday.
Thousands of "green jobs" are expected to be coupled with an increase in household energy bills as part of the white paper on energy and climate change.
Outlining ways of ensuring Britain becomes a low-carbon economy, the white paper is set to include plans to quadruple the number of wind farm applications over the next decade.
Speaking at the launch of the biggest onshore wind farm in the south of England, environment secretary Ed Miliband warned that the scale of the challenge was "very big".
And he suggested that Britain needs to diversify its energy sources to be less dependent on gas.
"We understand the objections," he said. "They can be legitimate objections but we do have a job of persuading people that we have got to get renewable energy somewhere.
"These are big changes but we are not talking about big initial costs now.
"They occur later in the next decade. Of course there are costs of the transition. My job is to counter those costs as much as possible. We need tough regulation on behalf of the consumer.
"We need to help people with energy efficiency so people can save money and we need to help the most disadvantaged."
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