‘Misguided’: £1.5tr investor group slams government over green policy rollback

Aviva Investors, the Local Authority Pension Fund Forum, and Jupiter Asset Management are among a raft of major investors to have this week warned Prime Minister Rishi Sunak that his rollback of green policy measures could hurt inward investment in the…

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‘Fully prepared’: National Grid ESO plots winter expansion of demand flexibility service

National Grid ESO has confirmed it anticipates energy supplies this winter will be sufficient to meet demand, with the expansion of the grid operator's Demand Flexibility Service set to play a growing role in shoring up the energy system's resilience and…

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IEA: Surging clean energy market is keeping alive slim hopes of meeting 1.5C goal

Narrow hopes of capping global temperature increases at 1.5C are being kept on life support by the record growth in clean energy technology markets, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has concluded in the first major update to its flagship Net Zero…

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Poll: Public supportive of taxpayer funds being used to reduce costs of EVs and heat pumps

The British public is broadly supportive of taxpayer funds being assigned to policies that can bring down the cost of green technologies such as heat pumps and electric vehicles, new polling has shown. A survey of 4,000 consumers, published by consultancy…

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‘A question of ambition’: Wind and solar could meet Britain’s energy demand in 2050, study finds

Britain's energy demand could be met entirely by wind and solar power by 2050, according to a new analysis which aims to dispel assumptions the technologies are too impractical or expensive to power a modern economy. The policy briefing paper, published…

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‘Offshore Fan Club’: Octopus Energy expands local wind tariff to Lincolnshire coastline

Octopus Energy has announced it will be expanding its 'Fan Club' energy tariff to customers living on the Lincolnshire coastline between Grimsby to Skegness, linking the discounted energy offer to an offshore wind farm for the first time. The move, announced…

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