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Nine new companies have pledged to become more armed forces friendly. Facilitated by the Energy and Utility Skills Partnership, they have signed the Armed Forces Covenant.
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Labour's bold plans around renewables and climate change should not get lost in the maelstrom engulfing UK politics at the moment, says David Blackman
Research has found that only 31 per cent of households who are concerned about climate change are willing to pay for infrastructure to achieve net-zero. In total, 74 per cent of households said they were concerned about the impact of climate change.
The vice-chair of the all-party parliamentary group on climate change has said European investors are turning to South America, because they are concerned about the impact of Brexit. However, one of the founders of Octopus Energy said the long-term attraction of UK renewables remained attractive.
Under its ‘People’s Power Plan’, Labour aims to deploy 52GW of offshore wind by 2030, providing enough electricity for 57 million households.
As concern grows about the quality of air we breathe, Eon UK's CEO, Michael Lewis, reveals why energy efficiency must now be a national infrastructure priority
The chair of the Committee on Climate Change discusses how the climate emergency eventually sunk in for the country's leadership and how, if they fail, he will see them in court.
Frontier Economics, analysing Labour’s Bringing Energy Home plan at the request of the Energy Networks Association (ENA), has said the wholesale changes proposed would divert resources and investment, act as a disruption to innovation and increase costs to customers.
John McDonnell has said Labour will introduce 2.5 million interest-free loans of up to £33,000 for the purchase of electric cars if it becomes the next government, with a requirement that those benefiting participate in a mass trial of Vehicle-2-Grid technology.
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.