The Labour leader addressed the GMB after union leaders criticised his green energy plans.
At last year's Labour conference, Sir Keir said he would make the UK the first major economy in the world to generate all of its electricity without using fossil fuels. An emergency back-up capacity of 0.7% of fossil fuel electricity production would be kept on standby.
Sir Keir was forced to defend his energy policy after being asked by a delegate what he had to say to communities who would be "decimated" by the end of oil and gas production in the North Sea. He told the GMB conference in Brighton there was a "race on" across the world "to seize the next generation of jobs, in new nuclear, in renewables".
The North Sea Transition Authority estimates the UK oil and gas industry directly employs about 30,000 people and indirectly supports 100,000 jobs.
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