The government has promised to provide more details of how a carbon price will be applied in the Budget, which will be announced on 29 October.
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Existing industry regulators like Ofgem and Ofwat should be replaced with a single watchdog to oversee all utility network functions, a Tory MP has urged.
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The Treasury backs the UK remaining closely locked into the EU’s emission trading system (ETS) following Brexit, a minister has revealed.
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Combining carbon capture technology with biomass to deliver negative emission generation may give the UK much needed "elbow room" in its efforts to cut emissions, Claire Perry has said.
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The government has been urged to open up the water companies to greater competition by one of the original architects of the Tories’ privatisation drive of the 1980s.
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The water minister has mooted a rationalisation of the structure of the industry in England.
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Improving the energy efficiency of the public sector estate will be part of the Treasury’s upcoming pan-Whitehall spending review, one of the department’s junior ministers has signalled.
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John Penrose, told Utility Week at the Conservative party conference that he welcomed the regulation review but said it had to be "radical" to meet head on Labour’s push to bring the utilities back into public ownership.
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The government’s scope for directly investing in nuclear projects is limited by the public finance rules, a government minister has said.
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The chancellor of the exchequer has commissioned the National Infrastructure Commission to carry out an independent study of the telecoms, energy and water regulators.
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