Individuals close to Mr Miliband insist that he was against Mr Healey’s changes, adding that he backed cutting energy bills for Britons.
Last Wednesday, the Chancellor outlined the Government will only provide funding to projects “when they lower bills and when they can connect to the grid”.
The Energy Secretary, Miatta Fahnbulleh, admitted it would be “pretty hard” to deliver clean power while lowering the cost of household bills down.
She ceded Net Zero plans were “necessary but not sufficient” to cut costs, adding “the public doesn’t measure the success of our energy system in gigawatts – they measure it in bills and whether they can live comfortably”.
A Government spokesman said: “The Government is still committed to clean power by 2030.
“Over the last two years, we have made considerable progress thanks to the momentum of clean power 2030, seeing £110billion of private sector investment announced in clean energy and securing enough clean power for over 20 million homes.