The UK should boost the rollout of renewable energy to insure against a faster than anticipated closure of its ageing nuclear power stations due to cracked reactors, a new report has urged.
A government report has revealed large discrepancies between theoretical levels of energy being used in British households and actual consumption rates.
Tanisha Beebee, senior policy adviser on energy and climate change at the CBI, said the notices being provided by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) about the UK withdrawing from the EU without a deal on 29 March are "very, very basic".
Current proposals for changing the price controls of distrIbution network operators go "nowhere near" enough to help decarbonise the UK’s energy system, according to one of the sector’s leading academics.