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Floating offshore wind power offers potentially the ‘single biggest investment opportunity’ for Wales in ‘decades’ but the government must give the fledgling sector greater certainty, according to a cross-party group of MPs.
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An increasing share of voters are prepared to accept higher taxation to support energy bills but less than half believe their homes need more insulation, polling has showed. The same polling found that only 14% of homeowners would not be willing to contribute to improving the energy efficiency of their homes, while only 10% of homeowners would be willing to contribute £3,000 plus.
Customers who pay their energy bills via direct debit face an average 76% cost increase from next month if the government pushes ahead with its plans to increase the Energy Price Guarantee (EPG), So Energy has estimated. It comes amid media reports that the government may not press ahead with the planned increase in the EPG.
New government planning rules do almost nothing to reverse the de facto ban on onshore wind power in England and are in direct conflict with the government’s push to decarbonise the grid by 2035, RenewableUK has warned.
The government will miss its 2030 electric vehicle (EV) public charging point installation target by a "staggering" 20 years if roll out of the devices continues at its current rate, Labour has warned.
A newly appointed energy ministers has said she will take a fresh look at introducing automatic repayments of credit balances. It comes after MPs denounced the retention by suppliers of credit balances on the accounts of direct debit customers and called for an automatic credit repayment mechanism to be devised.
The government’s delivery plan for decarbonising the energy system by 2035 was derailed by last year’s focus on resolving the energy bills crisis, putting the target at risk, Whitehall’s spending watchdog has revealed. The rebadged Department for Energy Security and Net Zero has told the NAO that has it still has more work to do on the stalled delivery plan.
The BEIS (business, energy and industrial strategy) department’s former chief civil servant has revealed that she didn’t sign off the government’s massive energy bills support package because of concerns that it risked breaching Whitehall propriety and value for money rules.
Half of all the homes in Britain are now connected to the national secure smart meter network, according to Data Communications Company (DCC). This milestone means that the network now supports almost 25 million meters, more than double the 11.7 million homes served by full-fibre broadband.
