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4 years ago
Centrica’s chief executive is being hauled in front of a select committee to be grilled on the company’s controversial “fire and rehire” proposals.
5 years ago
The surprise twist in the Energy White Paper was its embrace of the idea of auto-switching. David Blackman looks at how this and other key planks of the paper landed with the sector, and why it came out of the blue.
The government should widen the utility regulators’ toolkit beyond price controls, the CBI has told Rishi Sunak. In its submission to the chancellor of the exchequer ahead of the Budget on 3 March, the business body says the use of price controls “can lead to underinvestment and may not deliver price stability for consumers in the longer term”.
Boris Johnson has been pressed to further extend the Green Homes Grant by the chair of the House of Commons environment audit committee, who has claimed that delays issuing the scheme’s vouchers are leading energy efficiency installers to cut jobs. The prime minister responded that the government will “do its best” to address any failings in the scheme and also elaborated on his vision for a green recovery.
Agreement may have been reached between the UK and EU on a Brexit trade deal but the talking continues over how energy will be traded between the two sides and how they will work together to overcome common challenges developing renewable energy in the North Sea. David Blackman looks at the key issues to be resolved.
