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A first of its kind project which will see waste heat from large computer data centres being used to heat more than 10,000 homes has been awarded £36 million in government support. It is one of five green heating projects awarded a share of £65 million by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero as part of the Green Heat Network Fund.
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Energy UK has called on the government to “press ahead” with linking the UK Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) to its European Counterpart to drive up the carbon price, increasing revenues and avoiding huge export taxes for UK businesses. It comes as analysis by the trade association has revealed that between April and the beginning of October this year, the UK ETS raised over £1bn less for the Treasury than if prices had remained at 2022/23 levels.
In our latest round-up of the weekend’s national news coverage, Moody’s estimates that water companies are planning to spend £272 billion on upgrading sewage infrastructure over the next 25 years. Elsewhere, experts warn that new UK electric car charging laws do not solve all issues and Southern Water apologises for floods on the south coast.
Flexibility in water regulation is required to ensure companies can react to evolving consumer expectations such as sewer overflows, Susan Davy, head of Pennon has argued. She noted that overflows, which politicians and regulators made an investment priority for water and sewerage companies, were not being talked about five years ago when plans for PR19 were being made.
Labour’s policy to create a public energy company features in several of its outline green policies. However, the party has still yet to set out a detailed vision of what GB Energy will be, or what it won’t be. David Blackman gauged the view of experts at Labour’s party conference.
