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Breaches of environmental law will go unpunished until the UK establishes its own green watchdog in the event of a "no deal" Brexit.
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A wide-ranging Resources and Waste Strategy, published by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, says incineration is expected to continue to play a "significant" role in ensuring that rubbish is not sent to landfill.
The government has been accused of "pushing the solar industry off a cliff edge" after yesterday’s (18 December) announcement that the scrapping of the mechanism used by households to sell excess renewable power to the grid is going ahead.
Suppliers should be stripped of responsibility for carrying out household energy efficiency improvements, a government adviser has said.
Presenting evidence to the House of Commons environmental audit committee about the Budget on Wednesday (12 December), junior Treasury minister Robert Jenrick was quizzed about the announcement on carbon pricing in October’s tax and spending annual statement.
The secretary of state for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has given permission to vary the development consent order for a new combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) plant at King’s Lynn.
In a study on the political risks weighing on UK utility ratings, Standard and Poor (S&P) has estimated that the upfront costs associated of implementing Labour’s public ownership policy is between £140 billion and £160 billion.
"The decision to change two key aspects of network charging will fall in favour of large-scale gas-fired electricity generation"
Ofgem should replace the current “vanilla” supplier model with an insurance-backed assurance model, innovator Laura Sandys has insisted.
The chair of the House of Commons Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy committee has written to Richard Harrington, who has responsibility for the nuclear industry in his portfolio as minister for business and industry, for more details about the government’s post-Brexit plans for the nuclear industry.
On one side would be Sir David Attenborough pleading with delegates at the global warming
At the end of last month, Citizen’s Advice filed its super-complaint to the competition watchdog
Drax has announced amended terms for its deal with Iberdrola to buy 2.6GW of hydro, pumped storage and gas generation assets from its subsidiary Scottish Power for £702 million.
Citizens Advice has raised concerns that Ofgem's safety net was not designed to cover credit balances that run into thousands of pounds.
IT company Cloud KB launches MAT Android app for SMETS2 installations.