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A new report has urged the government to "aggressively adopt" green technology to tackle the amount of wasted energy spend within the public sector.
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Planning consents, decarbonised heat and subsidies for EVs and wind power all need to be rethought if the government is serious about achieving net zero emissions by 2050
Mike Clancy, general secretary of Prospect, does not always see eye-to-eye with his trade union counterparts, including on the subject of nationalisation, which he predicts could be "very, very choppy in terms of outputs and objectives".
The founder of Ecotricity, Dale Vince, has brought a legal case against the prime minister. Vince told Utility Week he would fund the case, which would cost "not much, a couple of tens of thousands of pounds".
Watching the ongoing political car crash that is Westminster, it’s hard to keep track of the constitutional permutations, let alone what all this might mean for utilities, says Suzanne Heneghan
With figures showing 20 per cent of the sector’s workforce will retire within the next ten years, Utility Week talks to experts about what needs to be done to ensure the workforce is fit for purpose, and how the industry is rising to the challenge of protecting workers' mental wellbeing.
The will include significant funding for rapid EV charging infrastructure as well as investment in technologies to remove greenhouses gasses from the atmosphere. Utility Week looks at what the projects are aiming to achieve.
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.
Familiar faces to the sector are among the raft of Conservative MPs standing down at the next election.
Green GB & NI Week was due to take place in November but has now been pushed back to an unspecified date "early next year".
The Data Communications Company (DCC) has announced that 2 million SMETS2 smart meters have been installed. SMETS2 devices are expected to iron out the issues faced by customers with first-generation (SMETS1) devices.