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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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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Not a single penny of Labour’s proposed £500 billion infrastructure investment boost should be spent on items that increase carbon emissions, the shadow Treasury minister leading the party’s review to "green" government spending 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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Leon Flexman, corporate affairs director at Hitachi-backed Horizon Nuclear Power said that cost reductions in the Wylfa project are having a knock-on impact on the strike price, the guaranteed floor for the sum it will be paid for generating electricity.
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The poorest customers could end up paying more for their energy bills following the introduction of the government’s price cap, Alan Whitehead has warned.
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Speaking in a Labour party conference fringe meeting on the transition to hydrogen, the shadow energy minister said the scale and scope of the UK’s embedded gas infrastructure ruled out a wholesale switchover to electric heating.
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