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Reeves says BEIS is ‘rowing back’ on CCUS pledges

The chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has accused the government of “barely engaging with the arguments” around carbon capture usage and storage and failing to give any sense of how it will achieve its net-zero targets.

6 years ago

Green light for Glasgow’s COP26 bid

6 years ago

Climate emergency prorogued

The new chancellor’s spending review did little of substance to move towards net zero, but given the political chaos enveloping Westminster it was never likely to, says David Blackman.

6 years ago

Consortium seeks government backing for net-zero industrial hub

6 years ago

District heating can make an immediate contribution

An urgent solution is needed to finding a low-carbon heat source for the 85 per cent of UK households still relying on fossil fuel-based natural gas. While hydrogen boilers and electric heat pumps are among the potential solutions, ken Hunnisett argues that district heating schemes are a proven technology ready to be deployed.

6 years ago

Destination net zero: delivering a sustainable future

The UK offshore oil and gas industry can play its part in helping the UK create a net zero basin by 2050 - or earlier - says Professor Paul de Leeuw of the Robert Gordon University

6 years ago

Spending review ‘an insult’ to climate change agenda

Utility Week speaks to Labour’s energy spokesman Alan Whitehead about what he called “empty words” in the spending review about climate change. Whitehead said the £30 million set aside for new decarbonisation projects made “almost no difference to the massive challenge ahead" and predicated a public backlash.

6 years ago

Scottish government unveils swathe of green initiatives

6 years ago

‘National conversation’ needed over cost of resilience

The public may have to consider paying for more back up power in order to prevent a repeat of the 9 August blackout, energy experts have warned following the publication of the National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO) report into the incident.

6 years ago

Revealed: Details of the white paper that never was

The long-awaited energy white paper remains on the shelf - with a series of consultations published last week seemingly in its stead. Utility Week explores what is thought to be included in the white paper and asks whether it will ever see the light of day.

6 years ago