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Will the exemption of green tariffs from the energy price cap bill provide a “loophole to continue to charge customers too much”? David Blackman investigates.
7 years ago
The government has set up an industry taskforce to draw up a strategy to restore the Grid in the event of a nationwide power failure triggered by a cyber-attack.
Control over the £125 million raised via the ECO (Energy Company Obligation) in the West Midlands should be handed over to the region’s mayor to help set up a network of pioneering Energy Innovation Zones (EIZs), according to new report.
The government should publish a national capital raising plan to deliver the Clean Growth Strategy (CGS) and set up a £100 million fund to develop local green energy projects, its green finance task force has recommended.
The government has recruited just over half of the staff it will need to police the UK’s nuclear safeguarding regime once the UK leaves Euratom.
The National Grid would back phasing out the sale of all new diesel and petrol cars ten years ahead of the government’s 2040 target date, according to its head of electric vehicles (EVs).
The UK risks losing up to 1.3 GW of low carbon electricity generating capacity over the next five years unless a generation of ageing wind turbines is replaced, a new report warns.
The government has thrown out plans for a new open cast coal mine in a Northumberland coastal beauty spot because it could undermine efforts to tackle climate change.
Claire Perry has signalled that onshore wind and solar projects will be allowed to compete for subsidies in a future Contract for Difference (CfD) auction.
The Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) department’s top civil servant has pledged that the government will outline its review of the options for decarbonising the UK’s heat system by the end of this year.
