David Blackman

What role should a National Infrastructure Bank play?

Backlog means ‘significant chunk’ of GHG cash still to come

The huge backlog of applications for Green Homes Grant (GHG) vouchers means that the £320 million allocated for the scheme next year may be spent even though the scheme is due to close this week, Utility Week has been told.

Deben: We aren’t delivering on climate change

The chair of the Climate Change Committee has branded the delivery of efforts by the government to decarbonise the economy as “crap” and called for the establishment of a “powerful” body to oversee them.

Just 20 GHG measures paid for last month

Alan Whitehead has slammed the Green Homes Grant (GHG) as a “catastrophic failure” after highlighting figures that show just 20 applications for vouchers last month have been paid out.

Labour calls for fresh measures to spark EV revolution

Renewables overtook fossil fuels for first time in 2020

Renewables furnished a bigger share of UK electricity generation than fossil fuels for the first full year ever in 2020, according to new government statistics. Utility Week delves into the details.

Blair’s thinktank warns populists could hijack net zero debate

Action needed to cut emissions to net zero is threatened by the “fragile” nature of the political consensus surrounding it, which could be seized on by populist parties, a new report by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change has warned.

Decarbonisation of heat ‘will cost more than £65bn’

ECO installations increased 47% in 2020

Extensive CCS and hydrogen rollout best bet to cut industrial emissions

A greater reliance on electrification of the energy system and a limited rollout of hydrogen and carbon capture infrastructure across the UK will lead to higher emissions from industry by 2050, the government’s industrial decarbonisation strategy has said.